I would like to create a shortcode with parameters which can be used in the WordPress post content. If the shortcode is used, the content should be displayed in the sidebar area! I can suppress the output of the shortcode with ob_end_clean(), but I have no idea how to put this part into the sidebar (I do not want to use the $_GLOBAL var). Is there any clean way to solve this issue?
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If you wanna show the content in sidebar if current post content has the shortcode then you should try has_shortcode function. Here is a demonstration-
$content = get_the_content();
if( has_shortcode( $content, 'your-shortcode' ) ) {
// The content has a [your-shortcode] short code, so this check returned true.
}
Hope it helps.
answered Jan 30, 2017 at 17:44
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This looks really great, will have to try it though. If I understand this correct, this code part would run in my sidebar within the loop and check if the shortcode is present. I somehow did not think of this solution, just tried to get the output within the shortcode function into sidebar. How would I extract the shortcode with its parameters from the content and run the code? Commented Jan 30, 2017 at 21:54