Using Shortcodes in themes

Shortcodes need to be within the content section of a post or page in order to be parsed (converted) into markup that can be displayed on a page. Occasionally a plugin does incorporate an ability to add its functionality outside of the page content area. But that does depend upon the plugin. And possibly your ability to delve into the plugin’s code and isolate the right code snippet to use.

@chase, @esmi

With 4.5.1 the only thing you need to do is using single-use syntax. For above video you could do:

<?php proplayer("[pro-player]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8Cs2gqXfk[/pro-player]"); ?>

Best,
Isa Goksu

I’m so glad you found this, thanks to you both for the responses!

I updated the plugin, and the code you provided works great. The only problem is I’m trying to show the most recent video, rather than a specific one.

My plan was to do this through custom fields, so that I can show the ‘video’ custom field of the most recent post in the video category. And then that will give me the most recent video.

So rather than use the youtube link in your example, I used my custom field. At first it didn’t work, but then I put quotes around it and now it looks like it’s working fine.
<?php echo proplayer("[pro-player]'$video'[/pro-player]"); ?>

I am receiving some type of error in IE though. It happens with your original code as well.

Here’s a link to the test site: https://clan-ngru.com/justatest/uncategorized/hello-world/

Thanks again for the help

Actually that wasn’t working right. The player was loading but it couldn’t find the video. I fiddled with it some more, and this seems to work better: <?php echo proplayer("[pro-player]$video;[/pro-player]"); ?>

But I’m still getting an error, and it can’t find the preview image. (maybe they’re connected)

The error is this:
Error #2044: Unhandled IOErrorEvent:. text=Error #2036: Load Never Completed.

Thanks again

@chase, could you send me a test url? This sounds like a weird problem.

Isa

sure, https://clan-ngru.com/justatest/uncategorized/hello-world/

@chase, I don’t see any problem. I watched a modern warfare 2 trailer.. You still have the problem?

Hey Isa, thanks for taking a look.

Yes, the video plays properly when you hit play, but the preview image from Youtube is not displaying, and when using IE an error occurs

Error #2044: Unhandled IOErrorEvent:. text=Error #2036: Load Never Completed.

I’m trying to do exactly the same. My php knowledge isn’t good enough to insert a custom field in-between the code. Please help.

<?php query_posts('showposts=1&cat=18'); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<?php proplayer("[pro-player] <strong>THIS IS WHERE I WANT THE CUSTOM FIELD TO APPEAR</strong> [/pro-player]"); ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>

That’s my code.

@chase you have to strip out the ‘;’ – semicolon at the end of your URL’s. You’re using like:

proplayer("[pro-player]$video;[/pro-player]"); ?>

you should try this:

proplayer("[pro-player]$video[/pro-player]"); ?>

Preview images are mostly based on video ids. In this case your video id ends with semicolon which originally it shouldn’t be there. ProPlayer cannot strip all the characters since other video sources sometimes use those characters. YouTube doesn’t accept semicolon but Vimeo on the other hand has lots of semicolons in its backend urls. I don’t know if it makes sense. Anyways just remove the semicolon and enjoy ??

@zefdesign, that code should work (I presume that u’re not using HTML tags in between [proplayer] tags). What’s ur problem?

Sorry I wasn’t clear there. I don’t know what code I need to put between the [pro player] tags to make my custom field called music_url appear there.

<?php query_posts('showposts=1&cat=18'); ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

<?php echo proplayer("[pro-player]$video_url[/pro-player]"); ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>

That’s my code and it isn’t working… I apologise if anything im saying here is beyond stupid.

zef, make sure you have this somewhere above that. (unless there is something wrong with my custom field code)

<?php
// check for video
$video_url = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'Video-URL', $single = true);
?>

Where it says Video-URL, change that to what ever your custom field actually is on the edit page. And it IS case sensitive.

isa, thank you for the continued support. Still having trouble though.
I stripped the semicolon out of the theme code, and made sure that the custom field entry in the post didn’t have one either, and still I’m still having issues.

I found a new video to try. I did a test post using the normal shortcode on the edit page here: https://clan-ngru.com/justatest/uncategorized/normal-test/

This is the url that I used between the shortcode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDfpsVDjIWo

In that post, the video plays fine, working preview image, no errors in IE.

Now here is my other test post, where I’m using the custom field method. The video url in the custom field is the same as above, with no semicolon

https://clan-ngru.com/justatest/uncategorized/custom-field-test/

Yet for some reason, when I remove the semicolon from the theme, I get the following error in the browser:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘/’, expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/content/n/g/r/ngruhq/html/justatest/wp-content/themes/default/single.php on line 31

If I add the semicolon back, the video plays fine, but with no preview image and the same actionscript error in IE.

If you would be willing, I can send you the admin login information to play with and you can edit the single.php file in the WordPress editor to play with the themes code.

Brilliant, thank you so much for helping me there!