I need to execute a short code on thousands of posts which don't already contain the short code as i've added some manually.
I'm using another function to add the opening short code after the 2nd paragraph which works.
I've written this code which outputs the closing short code after the content but it does't execute.
add_filter( 'the_content', 'closing_shortcode' );
function closing_shortcode( $content ) {
if( !has_shortcode( $content, 'members') )
return $content;
$close_shortcode = do_shortcode('[/member]');
return $content . $close_shortcode;
}
Maybe i need to use echo do_shortcode.
do_shortcode()
on only half the sortcode, the ending half which won't translate well. What happens whenever you removedo_shortcode()
and just append the closing shortcode string?<div>
and was able to use the above successfully ( both withdo_shortcode()
and with just appending the ending shortcode tag ). It could be that there's a bunch of junk content between your opening shortcode and ending shortcode ( maybe empty paragraph tags ) that's keeping it from operating properly. View Source / Dev Tools to see if this is the case. If your shortcode relies on JS check for console errors.