Question

I am using wordpress as our CMS for our companies website.
We have about 5-10 pages which we want to insert the same call to action content in.

How can I create a shortcode that will allow me to embed the content from a post into a page?

Thanks
Steven.

Answer 1

I haven’t tested this, but you’ll probably want something along these lines:

function create_call_to_action_shortcode( $atts ) {
        $call_to_action_content = '';
        $query = new WP_Query( array( 'p' => $post_id, 'no_found_rows' => true ) );

        if( $query->have_posts() ) {
            $query->the_post();

            remove_filter( 'the_content', 'sharing_display', 19);

            $call_to_action_content = apply_filters( 'the_content', get_the_content() );

            add_filter( 'the_content', 'sharing_display', 19);

            wp_reset_postdata();
        }

        return $call_to_action_content;
}

add_shortcode( 'call_to_action', 'create_call_to_action_shortcode' );`

In your pages ( or other posts, for that matter ), you can simply insert [call_to_action] in the page/post content.

You can find more information on shorcodes here. 🙂

Edit:

In order to remove sharing buttons from the post content, you need to call remove_filter( 'the_content', 'sharing_display', 19);. I’ve update the code above.