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Chalvin
Chalvin

Reputation: 13

How to add multiple shortcode in one functions?

I had this wordpress functions

function randm() { 
  $args = array( 'post_type' => 'post',
   'orderby'=> 'rand', 'category_name' => 'Motor',
   'posts_per_page' => 1, );
  wp_reset_postdata(); 
} 
 
else { $string .= 'no posts found'; } return $string; }
 
add_shortcode('randm','randm'); 
add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

In the code above if I type [randm] will show the post from "Motor" category, I want to add multiple category in there and multiple shortcode for every different category how to do that?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 564

Answers (1)

maggiathor
maggiathor

Reputation: 174

Your code seems to be incomplete, anyway: You need to use shortcode attritubes, if I'm understanding you right.

function randm($atts) {
    $args = array( 
        'post_type' => 'post', 
        'orderby'=> 'rand', 
        'category_name' => $atts['category'], 
        'posts_per_page' => 1, 
    ); 
    /// ... your code 
}

You can use this as shortcode:

[randm category="Motor"]

If you want to use multiple categories, you can explode the string:

function randm($atts) {
    $args = array( 
        'post_type' => 'post', 
        'orderby'=> 'rand', 
        'category_name' => explode(', ', $atts['category']), 
        'posts_per_page' => 1, 
    ); 
    /// ... your code 
 }

and use

[randm category="Motor, Second"]

If you want to make sure a default value exist you can use

function randm($atts) {
    $atts = shortcode_atts( array(
        'category' => 'Motor',
    ), $atts); 
    // Remaining code
}

Upvotes: 1

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