Shortcodes in Custom Fields

It is possible, but would require a bit of work in the core plugin and may cause issues.

Can you explain what you’re looking to do (beyond the obvious)? What shortcodes, why etc?

If you use a custom field of type URL, you can put a link in there.

Perhaps I’m still missing something. For example, what shortcode do you want to put in there? Which plugin or theme is giving you that shortcode?

I see – it’s a list of related posts basically.

I assume you don’t want to put that in the body of the listing because users can change/remove it?

I’m trying to think of another way to accomplish this. Running every custom field through the shortcode process would add a lot of load to a site.

You should add a custom tab (via php) and use the default wp shortcode API call

<?php echo do_shortcode( $content ) ?>

inside the function that will add content in the new tab.

To add a tab with label ‘New Tab’ do the following in ur theme functions.php file:

add_filter('geodir_detail_page_tab_list_extend', 'geodir_detail_page_tab_list_extend') ;

function geodir_detail_page_tab_list_extend($tab_array)
{
 	$tab_array['my_new_tab'] = array( 
										'heading_text' =>  __('New Tab',GEODIRECTORY_TEXTDOMAIN),
										'is_active_tab' => false,
										'is_display' =>  apply_filters('geodir_detail_page_tab_is_display', true, 'my_new_tab'),
										'tab_content' => ''
									);
	return $tab_array ;
}

Now for the second part, to show Content when user click on that tab, do this:

add_action('geodir_after_tab_content' ,'geodir_my_new_tab_content');
function geodir_my_new_tab_content($tab_index)
{
	if($tab_index =='my_new_tab')
	{
               echo do_shortcode( $content );
	}
}

Please make sure that ‘my_new_tab'(tab index) is same as array index created in first step.

Obviously change $content inside the do_shortcode call to whatever shortcode name you need to use.

Let us know how you went.

Thx