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Spen
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October 6, 2014 at 10:50 am
Hello there,
I cannot seem to have a short code execute from within a text widget – is this actually possible?
Apologies if I have missed something obvious.
Cheers,
Spencer
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Tony
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October 6, 2014 at 11:30 am
Hi Spencer,
Shortcodes within widgets needs a small snippet of code to enable them to work.
add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');
You can add that to your themes functions.php file or a site specific plugin
Check here for more info:
http://digwp.com/2010/03/shortcodes-in-widgets/
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Spen
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October 6, 2014 at 11:49 am
Hi Tony,
Thanks for getting back – that’s a nifty bit of code, thanks.
Is it possible to add an excerpt to an event that I could then display within the events short code?
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Tony
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October 6, 2014 at 11:55 am
Which events shortcode are you using?
If you go to Event Espresso -> General Settings -> Templates (tab).
You should see ‘Display Description’, what is that currently set to?
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Spen
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October 7, 2014 at 9:30 am
Thanks Tony, that was the section I was missing.
I have two staff members at present, but the generic short code is not displaying either of them: [ESPRESSO_STAFF]
If I add an ID, that staff member will display: [ESPRESSO_STAFF id=”1″]
How do I get them to all display?
Cheers,
Spencer
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Tony
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October 7, 2014 at 9:59 am
Where/how are you using the [ESPRESSO_STAFF] shortcode?
ESPRESSO_STAFF uses the event_id to display all staff members for that event, this can either be set within [ESPRESSO_STAFF event_id={$event_id}] or the Event Espresso pages set a global $this_event_id for each event which will be used if set.
I’m guessing you are currently using the shortcode within a standard wp page? If so you’ll need to set the event_id within the shortcode.
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Spen
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October 7, 2014 at 10:04 am
Ah right, I get that now.
I was trying to display a list of all staff managers on the same standard page. Is there any way to do this?
Cheers,
Spencer
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Lorenzo Orlando Caum
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October 7, 2014 at 10:48 am
Hi, the shortcode pulls the information from each event so this should work on a WordPress page (adding a shortcode for each event):
[ESPRESSO_STAFF event_id=”1″]
[ESPRESSO_STAFF event_id=”2″]
[ESPRESSO_STAFF event_id=”3″]
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Lorenzo
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Spen
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October 7, 2014 at 11:09 am
Thanks Lorenzo,
I thought there was a way to pull the managers in via an array rather than put a short code in for each. That’s cool now I know.
Cheers,
Spencer
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Spen
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October 7, 2014 at 11:10 am
As an extra thought, is there a template code that could do this?
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Dean
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October 8, 2014 at 3:21 am
Hi,
First off you can use
[ESPRESSO_STAFF id=”1″]
[ESPRESSO_STAFF id=”2″]
[ESPRESSO_STAFF id=”3″]
etc
It’s not based on events but the staff ID.
https://eventespresso.com/wiki/shortcodes-template-variables/#staff
Regarding template wise, the only way to achieve it would be to create a custom function that basically pulls the information out of the database directly, there isn’t a shortcode to loop though all staff like that.
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