How can Post Meta Key's be used anywhere?

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  • December 14, 2019 at 8:57 am #521472

    Sudell Sudell
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    Im using fusion builder (Avada) to build page templates. I want to use the button element to display the ‘phone’ meta delail into a button. I’m trying to use the shortcode tel:[gd_post_meta key=”phone” show=”value”] as the link which isnt working.
    Is there a way to just output the relevant meta detail, or Is there another hook I should be using?

    It would also be very handy if the meta detail can be placed anywhere within text or elements.

    For example. The relevant post meta for address, email or even a keyword could be placed within a paragraph of text? or placed across specific page templates?

    Is this possible?

    This is the fusion button element code:
    [fusion_button link=”tel:[gd_post_meta key=’phone’ show=’value’]” text_transform=”” title=”Test” target=”_self” link_attributes=”” alignment=”” modal=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility” class=”” id=”” color=”default” button_gradient_top_color=”” button_gradient_bottom_color=”” button_gradient_top_color_hover=”” button_gradient_bottom_color_hover=”” accent_color=”” accent_hover_color=”” type=”” bevel_color=”” border_width=”” border_radius=”” border_color=”” border_hover_color=”” size=”” stretch=”default” icon=”” icon_position=”left” icon_divider=”no” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”left” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_offset=”” /]

    December 14, 2019 at 1:15 pm #521503

    Alex Rollin
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    Hello,

    thanks for writing in about this.

    As a workaround right now you could use the GD Badge shortcode, and set the link to %%input%% then add some custom CSS styles to make the badge look exactly like the button you want.

    Generally speaking, shortcodes do not execute within other shortcodes. You would want to talk to Avada about enabling shortcodes within their shortcodes.

    About the raw output, the developers are considering adding something like that and I Have added your vote for the suggestion and notified the developers.

    To accomplish this goal now would require probably two customizations, the first being a new shortcode to render the value only of the phone field. The second would be a change to Avada’s shortcodes to allow render of shortcodes inside an Avada shortcode. In most cases rendering a shortcode inside another shortcode requires rendering the shortcode value to a variable, and then the second new shortcode simply inserts that value into the shortcode in the page.

    We have slightly simpler example of this here: https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs-v2/faq/customizing/#custom-integrations

    If you need hands on help with customization you can contact a GD Expert here:
    https://geodirectoryexperts.com/

    December 15, 2019 at 12:27 am #521565

    Guust
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    The [gd_post_meta key=phone] shortcode should automatically add the “tel” to it; it is not working because you are adding it twice the way you are doing it.
    If you add a custom class to the shortcode, for example 

    [gd_post_meta key="phone" css_class="my-css"]

    then you just need to create some CSS and you should have a button.

    Thanks

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