Question

I am displaying a page from vendor’s server on my website, and would like to use shortcodes to style the layout of the content, this page has a url http://mysite.com/vendor_page.

I did some research and understand that I can use do_shortcode() to echo the shortcode, but not sure how I can use it on an external page where there is no actual content I can edit with my WordPress visual html editor.

Kinda lost here and hope someone can point me a right direction.

Answer 1

To use do_shortcode() function in a template/php file you have to first create/register a shortcode in your functions.php like

add_shortcode('my_test_shortCode', 'my_test_shortCode_func');
function my_test_shortCode_func()
{
    return "my_test_shortCode_func working...!"; // or whatever you want
}

Then in your template/php file you can directly call it like

<?php echo do_shortcode('[my_test_shortCode]');?>

As a result it’ll echo my_test_shortCode_func working...! at the place of do_shortcode.