Using a short-code to determine the search term

Hi Alex.

Theoretically, that should work – I coded the plugin in such a way that shortcodes within it should execute.

Trying running [wpv-post-title output=”sanitize”] by itself – grab the output and then put it between the [youtube] shortcode. Does it work then?

Can you set up a test page on your site demonstrating the above? I’d like to take a look and see what’s happening.

Hello David

Thanks for the fast response.

Here’s a video showing what’s happening. The site isn’t live, so all pages are test pages!

https://www.loom.com/share/6fb3aaa97115487daf6466ac83a15413

Alex

Thanks Alex. Unfortunately, that video gives me limited information that I need to diagnose this, especially as you’ve got some pretty-funky non-standard stuff going on in the back-end, which may have an effect here.

Can you confirm the following for me?

1. If you run [wpv-post-title output=”sanitize”] what output do you get?
2. When you try the original shortcode-within-shortcode (that doesn’t work) and the output displays incorrectly – can you go into the page source and dig out the YouTube code and let me know what’s being embedded?

The output from

[wpv-post-title output="sanitize"] is
Daniel Schmachtenberger
as I show in the last part of the video.

There’s a lot of code, but I guess this is the most helpful:

<div class="youtube-embed" itemprop="video" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/VideoObject">
	<meta itemprop="url" content="https://www.youtube.com//[wpv-post-title output=" sanitize"]"="">
	<meta itemprop="embedUrl" content="https://www.youtube.com/embed/[wpv-post-title output=" sanitize"]"="">
	<meta itemprop="height" content="340">
	<meta itemprop="width" content="560">
	<iframe style="border: 0;" class="youtube-player" width="560" height="340" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed?listType=search&list=%5Bwpv-post-title+output%3D%22sanitize%22%5D&modestbranding=1&color=white" allowfullscreen="">.....</iframe>
</div>

You can view the whole page here.

view-source:https://tllp.org/person/daniel-schmachtenberger/

Alex

Hi Alex,

I’ve tried recreated the issue on my own side and I’m unable to. Looking at my code it should work, as a I allow other plugins to work when embedded within my own. However, whatever you’re doing in your editor may be changing this behaviour.

When I next take a look at the plugin I’ll do some further testing to see if there is an issue here, but my quick tests don’t show this to be the case.

OK. Thanks David.

If I come up with any other conditions, I’ll let you know.

Alex