mrprainx

Thank you @codepeople.

I’m happy to hear that. I just thought I was facing some kind of “bug”, pushing updates everyday. But if they are real updates, I’m very happy to install them everyday! ??

Thank you again.

Hello everyone. Any news about this issue?

I’m still having daily updates.

Thank you.

I know I was missing something very basic. Eheh.

Thank you again.

Great! Thank you Steve!

Update:

I’ve just read that there is a specific way to get post data for Post Grid of Visual Composer. That’s why post ID wasn’t “passed” to the function.

• https://kb.wpbakery.com/docs/developers-how-tos/adding-custom-shortcode-to-grid-builder/
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31196353/wordpress-getting-post-data-for-post-grid-of-visual-composer

Following this two guides I’ve managed to have the event start date in the right way.

Thank you.

EDIT:

Following this guide, I’ve updated the code as follows:

// Add Shortcode For Event Date

function start_date_shortcode() {

	// Ensure the global $post variable is in scope
	global $post;
	
	// Retrieve events
	$events = tribe_get_events();
	
	// Loop through the events: set up each one as
	// the current post then use template tags to
	// display the start date date
	
	foreach ( $events as $post ) {
  		setup_postdata( $post );
  		

  	echo tribe_get_start_date( $post, false, 'j M, Y - \h H:i' ) . '<br/>';
  	
 	} 

}

add_shortcode('start-date', 'start_date_shortcode');

But I still get the list of all events’ start date.

see screenshot

Hello Ed.

This helped a lot! Thank you!

I’ve updated the code as follows:

// Add Shortcode For Event Date

function start_date_shortcode() {

	$events = tribe_get_events();
	
	foreach( $events as $event ) {
  
  		echo tribe_get_start_date( $event, false, 'j M, Y - g:i A');
  	} 
  
}

add_shortcode('start-date', 'start_date_shortcode');

The issue now is that it’s showing the date of all the events, not just one. As you can see in the screenshot, I have 2 events; the shortcode is now showing the start date of both:

screenshot here

What am I missing?

EDIT:

I’ve fixed the code as follows:

// Add Shortcode For Event Date

function start_date_shortcode() {

  global $post
  return tribe_get_start_date( $post->id, false, 'F j, Y - g:i a');
}

add_shortcode('start-date', 'start_date_shortcode');

But it doesn’t work.

For users who are looking for the same solution.

I’ve managed to have this working by:

1. Create a shortcode as suggested by Steve as follows:

   // Add Shortcode
   function newsletter_form() {
   
   	return htmlspecialchars($_POST['email']);
   }
   
   add_shortcode( 'newsletter-form', 'newsletter_form' );

2. Add a filter in the functions.php file to use shortcodes inside <input> HTML tag, namely in the VALUE attribute as follows:

   // shortcodes in html
   
   add_filter( 'wp_kses_allowed_html', function ( $allowedposttags, $context ) {
       if ( $context == 'post' ) {
           $allowedposttags['input']['value'] = 1;
       }
       return $allowedposttags;
   }, 10, 2 );

   I found this solution here

3. Edit the email field of the form as follows:
   <input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="[newsletter-form]" style="padding: 10px 2%; width: 90%; min-width: auto; color:#000000;">

Hope this helps.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by mrprainx.

Thank you Steve.

I will use <?php echo htmlspecialchars($_POST['email']); ?> to avoid XSS. Thank you for pointing this out.

And I will give a try in using shortcode.

Thank you again.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by mrprainx.

That was so easy! Sorry for this dumb question.

To be honest, I’ve tried that before asking the question, but I wrote the optional option in the wrong place of the tags… ??

Thank you Takayuki.

Have a nice day.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by mrprainx.

Yes I was, actually!

Thank you Michael.

I had some lines for the taxonomy in the functions.php file that I totally forgot about.

Thank you again.

Best regards.

Here it is:

{"paesi":{"name":"paesi","label":"Paesi","singular_label":"Paese","description":"","public":"true","hierarchical":"true","show_ui":"true","show_in_menu":"true","show_in_nav_menus":"true","query_var":"true","query_var_slug":"","rewrite":"true","rewrite_slug":"","rewrite_withfront":"1","rewrite_hierarchical":"0","show_admin_column":"false","show_in_rest":"false","show_in_quick_edit":"","rest_base":"","labels":{"menu_name":"","all_items":"","edit_item":"","view_item":"","update_item":"","add_new_item":"","new_item_name":"","parent_item":"","parent_item_colon":"","search_items":"","popular_items":"","separate_items_with_commas":"","add_or_remove_items":"","choose_from_most_used":"","not_found":"","no_terms":"","items_list_navigation":"","items_list":""},"object_types":["causes"]},"settori":{"name":"settori","label":"Settori","singular_label":"Settore","description":"","public":"true","hierarchical":"true","show_ui":"true","show_in_menu":"true","show_in_nav_menus":"true","query_var":"true","query_var_slug":"","rewrite":"true","rewrite_slug":"","rewrite_withfront":"1","rewrite_hierarchical":"0","show_admin_column":"false","show_in_rest":"false","show_in_quick_edit":"","rest_base":"","labels":{"menu_name":"","all_items":"","edit_item":"","view_item":"","update_item":"","add_new_item":"","new_item_name":"","parent_item":"","parent_item_colon":"","search_items":"","popular_items":"","separate_items_with_commas":"","add_or_remove_items":"","choose_from_most_used":"","not_found":"","no_terms":"","items_list_navigation":"","items_list":""},"object_types":["causes"]}}

Hello Joey. Sorry for late reply.

Yes! This definitely helps. Thank you very much!

I would give it a try.

PS. I was sure to find some useful plugin to achieve this, but this is not the case apparently!

Thank you Michael!

Great assistance.