[Plugin: Music Affiliate Pro] Album Specific Widget Outside of Content

Hi jpmizell,

Direct support for doing this isn’t exactly built in, but it should be possible depending on how comfortable you are modifying your files (back them up before making changes and you should be fine).

If you’re putting the iTunes ID into a custom field, you will need to grab that in your template using get_post_meta().

Then construct a dummy shortcode string: $shortcode = "[itunes id='$meta_value']"

And run that through do_shortcode()

That should allow you to output the widget anywhere outside of the content section.

Hope that helps.

– Brady

Brady,

Thanks for the quick word.

After fumbling with your helpful code suggestions, here’s what I’ve got stashed in single.php

<!-- iTunes music Box Code -->
<?php
	$meta_values = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'itunes_id', true ) ;
//	echo ' | $meta_values: ', $meta_values ;
	$itunes_shortcode = "[itunes id='$meta_values']" ;
//	echo ' | $itunes_shortcode: ' , $itunes_shortcode ;
	echo do_shortcode( $itunes_shortcode ) ;
?>
<!-- end of iTunes Music Box Code -->

Thanks for the direction.

John

*Note: The echo lines were a check for functionality. Disregard them.