I have made a menu item with this code. The menu item shows up but the shortcode output is not there. Is there something I can add or a different method that will do this. I hav
Enable description on the menu page, paste to the description textarea of the link your shortcode, in functions.php add next code:
add_filter('walker_nav_menu_start_el', function($item_output, $item) {
if (!is_object($item) || !isset($item->object)) {
return $item_output;
}
if ($item->ID === 829) {
$item_output = do_shortcode($item->description);
}
return $item_output;
}, 20, 2);
@Tim This code will work
put it in functions.php file
add_filter('wp_nav_menu_items', 'do_shortcode');
You can't use shortcodes directly in the menu URL on the menu page, because the brackets get stripped out. But you can use placeholders like this: #profile_link#
.
With the following code in functions.php
, you can create a custom menu item with the URL #profile_link#
, and it will replace that with your shortcode.
/**
* Filters all menu item URLs for a #placeholder#.
*
* @param WP_Post[] $menu_items All of the nave menu items, sorted for display.
*
* @return WP_Post[] The menu items with any placeholders properly filled in.
*/
function my_dynamic_menu_items( $menu_items ) {
// A list of placeholders to replace.
// You can add more placeholders to the list as needed.
$placeholders = array(
'#profile_link#' => array(
'shortcode' => 'my_shortcode',
'atts' => array(), // Shortcode attributes.
'content' => '', // Content for the shortcode.
),
);
foreach ( $menu_items as $menu_item ) {
if ( isset( $placeholders[ $menu_item->url ] ) ) {
global $shortcode_tags;
$placeholder = $placeholders[ $menu_item->url ];
if ( isset( $shortcode_tags[ $placeholder['shortcode'] ] ) ) {
$menu_item->url = call_user_func(
$shortcode_tags[ $placeholder['shortcode'] ]
, $placeholder['atts']
, $placeholder['content']
, $placeholder['shortcode']
);
}
}
}
return $menu_items;
}
add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_objects', 'my_dynamic_menu_items' );
You just need to set 'shortcode'
in the $placeholders
array, and optionally 'atts'
and 'content'
.
For example, if your shortcode is like this:
[example id="5" other="test"]Shortcode content[/example]
You would update:
'#placeholder#' => array(
'shortcode' => 'example';
'atts' => array( 'id' => '5', 'other' => 'test' );
'content' => 'Shortcode content';
),
Note that I don't use do_shortcode() because it is a resource intensive function and isn't the right tool for the job in this case.