Curtiss Grymala

You should be able to use show_comments=1 in the shortcode, but I haven’t really had an opportunity to test that feature too much (and it’s pretty heavily dependent on how your theme handles the comment list/form), so I can’t say for certain. If you’re still using the plugin, please let me know if that works. Thanks.

If you’re still using this plugin, would you mind downloading the latest development/test copy at https://github.com/cgrymala/post-content-shortcodes and let me know if it works (and if it fixes the issue you’re running into)? I’m just about ready to release that new version, but I’d like to test it more widely and make sure it’s fixing the issues people have raised in the past few months. Thanks.

I am looking into this as well. It does not appear that the imported feeds automatically refresh themselves (at least, ours hasn’t since we set it up a month ago).

It looks like this is a bug in the plugin. The shortcodes attribute should work with the post-list shortcode, but the code that makes it work within post-content has a bug in it.

I’ll look into this issue.

In the meantime, if you want to search for if ( true !== $shortcodes ) { within the post_content function, and replace it with the following, that should fix the issue (hopefully).

if ( true !== $this->shortcode_atts['shortcodes'] ) {

@calvin and @aristotel_timely – this was an issue that has since been addressed by Bradley. Thank you.

As unlikely as it sounds, @theinfinity is absolutely right.

Even though, without context, it seems like that’s a silly change to make, once you look at the plugin code, you’ll realize it makes perfect sense.

The problem is, the plugin uses the error message text to check to see which error was returned. In 4.4, it looks like that error message text changed, so the plugin’s test no longer passes.

The current_user_can() function itself is not deprecated.

The notice you’re receiving is because there’s a plugin/theme somewhere in your system that, instead of checking user capabilities with something like current_user_can( 'manage_options' ) is using the numerical user levels, like current_user_can( 7 ).

The numerical user levels were deprecated a long time ago, but some plugins/themes still use them.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Roles_and_Capabilities#User_Levels

There will be some new attributes coming in the next version that will allow you to filter according to any taxonomy (including tags).

Can you please share what shortcode/widget you’re using, and a link to the site on which you’re experiencing the issue? I can’t, off the top of my head, think of any reason this should be happening.

For the first request, if you’re using the post-content shortcode, you could hook into the post-content-shortcodes-title filter to limit the length of each title.

If you’re using the post-list shortcode, it’s a little more difficult. You’d have to selectively hook into the the_title filter to trim the title length. I’m working on a new version that will fire an action at the start/end of each shortcode, so, once that new version is released, you could hook into those actions to add the filter to the_title and remove it once the shortcode is done being processed.

Regarding your second request, the new version will also include a link_image attribute that will automatically wrap the thumbnail in a link if it’s set to true.

I am working on a new version that will include an ignore_protected attribute that will allow you to leave password-protected posts out of the list.

Theoretically, you should be able to use the post-content-shortcodes-open-item filter to accomplish this. The code might look something like:

add_filter( 'post-content-shortcodes-open-item', 'my_pcs_add_cat_to_title', 10, 3 );
function my_pcs_add_cat_to_title( $output, $post_id, $atts ) {
    $cats = get_the_category( $post_id );
    if ( empty( $cats ) || ! is_array( $cats ) )
        return $output;
    $category = array_shift( $cats );
    return $output . '[' . $category->name . '] ';
}

Theoretically, you should be able to use the post-content-shortcodes-include-thumbnail filter to wrap the excerpt separately from the image. It might look something like:

add_filter( 'post-content-shortcodes-include-thumbnail', 'my_pcs_wrap_excerpt', 10, 3 );
function my_pcs_wrap_excerpt( $output, $thumb, $content ) {
    return $thumb . '<div class="pcs-excerpt-inner-wrapper">' . $content . '</div>';
}

I believe you should just be able to use something like:

[post-list show_title=1]

In the upcoming version of the plugin, I will be adding a link_image attribute to the shortcode, which will wrap the thumbnail in a link if it’s set.