02 Mar modified: 8 years ago

Shortcode Sandbox

grav plugin shortcode Mike Arney | unsplash

Let's try a built-in core shortcode. The following shortcode will add an underline to some text. The third word is underlined. OK, now we are going to try a modified shortcode that I put together.

This one will turn the selected text bold and red. The trigger will be... (can't show you). Your chain refines our vetted dilemma of monkeys behind holes.

Stumbling Block #1 -- code-highlighting the trigger prior to running the shortcode caused it not to fire. Took me hours to figure that out!!

Shortcodes are defined in a .php file that is located in the shortcode-core plugin folder. For example, the shortcode demonstrated above is: /user/plugins/shortcode-core/shortcodes/BoldRedShortcode.php.

There seems to be a major issue with the 'blubox' shortcode. Whenever it appears "above the fold" it causes the article header photo and intro text to disappear from the "recent items listing" on the home page. Moving this shortcode below the fold solves this. Simple shortcodes don't seem to cause this unwanted behavior.

OK, lets try another one that's a bit more ambitious. This one is called BlueBox. My intent was to be a bit more ambitious with this one. I wanted to call a .html.twig as a partial. However, I ran into an issue when the partial file was not recognized. A nice blue debugger screen was displayed instead. Obviously, I need to study more working shortcode examples.

In any case the example below was created by pasting the html directly into BlueBoxShortcode.php.

This is the content that we're going to insert into the nested blue box. Interested to find out what will happen. Probably nothing.

Yet another shortcode – this one build on the previous two. We'll call this one RedBoxShortcode.php and it'll live at /user/plugins/shortcode-ui/shortcodes/RedBoxShortcode.php. I'm going to investigate the advice given by @rhukster with regard to adding a separate twig file. The twig file should allow for more complex coding. – or not.

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Surprisingly, the shortcode above seems to work! Now let's add some more custom elements.

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This is frigg'n incredible! I've actually created my own plugin! Using @rhukster's code, of course, but still &endash;, this is a first for me! I'm obviously very excited.

The green box above is generated through the GreenBoxShortcode.php shortcode this located in the shortcode-greg directory which, in turn, is in the plugins directory.

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