Shortcodes inside a shortcode - wordpress

Question

I created a shortcode which display the employees, the HTML look somthing like that:

Answer 1

You have to use shortcodes recursively to get the result.

function start_employee($attr,$content){
          return '<ul class="employee">'.do_shortcode($content).'</ul>';
}
add_shortcode("start_employee","start_employee");

function employee($attr,$content){
          return '<li><img src=""> <h5>name</h5>; <p>description</p></li>';
}
add_shortcode("employee","employee");

Answer 2

Shortcodes do not automatically nest -- you have to call do_shortcode($content) yourself. See the caption_shortcode() example on http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API.

Answer 3

If you have a recursive function set up, as in Cart66, you can do something like this:

echo do_shortcode('[hide_from level="membership" ]<strong>You may only order this item if you are a member. Become a <a href="http://yoursite.com/beta/member-log-in/">member</a>.</strong>[/hide_from]');
echo do_shortcode('[show_to level="membership"]'.do_shortcode('[add_to_cart item="'.$prefix.get_post_meta($post->ID,'_et_cart66_product_id',true).'" ]').'[/show_to]');