Get Post Content Shortcode

Description

This plugin provides a shortcode to get the content of a post based on ID number.
By default, the content will be passed through wpautop() and do_shortcode() unless you tell it not to by using attributes or filters as shown below.

Examples

[post-content id="42"]

This gets the content of post 42.

[post-content id="42" autop="false"]

This gets the content of post 42 and does not call wpautop on the content.

[post-content id="42" shortcode="false"]

This gets the content of post 42 and does not call do_shortcode on the content.

[post-content id="42" autop="false" shortcode="false"]

This gets the content of post 42 and does not call wpautop or do_shortcode on the content.

[post-content id="42" status="publish,future"]

This gets the content of post 42 only if the post_status is “publish” or “future”.

[post-content id="42" field="excerpt"]

This gets the excerpt of post 42.

Note:
The containing post may still have wpautop called on it’s content.

Attributes

1. id – integer

   The post ID

2. autop – boolean – default: true

   The following values equal true: true, 1, yes. All other values equal false.

3. shortcode – boolean – default: true

   The following values equal true: true, 1, yes. All other values equal false.

4. status – text – default: publish

   Any default or custom WordPress status value (publish, draft, future, etc.).

   The default value will be used if the status is not registered with WordPress.

5. field – text – default: post_content

   The name of the database column you want to retrieve.

   This default value will be used if the column name is not in the array of allowed field names.

Filters

You can modify the fields that are allowed to be retrieved with this filter.

add_filter('post-content-allowed-fields', function($allowed_fields) {
    // Do your filtering here.
    return $allowed_fields;
});

You can specify the default shortcode attribute values.

add_filter('post-content-default-attributes', function ($default_attributes) {
    // Your code here.
    return $default_attributes;
});

You can filter attributes per shortcode usage

add_filter('shortcode_atts_post-content', function ($out, $pairs, $attributes) {
    // Your code here.
    return $out;
}, 10, 3);

Installation

1. Upload get-post-content-shortcode folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Place [post-content id="SOME OTHER POST ID"] in your content.

Reviews

It works!

Ruben Garcia April 28, 2017

Other plugins create an infinite loop but this not Thanks!

The only one that does what I want

jwstanley January 12, 2017

This is the only one that passes through both of wpautop() and do_shortcode() so shortcodes in the Post are processed. It’s perfect for what I want to do. I use several instances of the shortcode on a page to pull together content from several posts, a bit like a content management system. So thank you for this! My small issue was that the post ID in the shortcode is not descriptive, as the slug would be, which is supported by some other post-content plugins. My workround is to add an unsupported attribute to the shortcode like desc=”post description” which happily makes no difference to the processing. This workround completely satisfies my need.

Works with DIVI

SylvPichot September 3, 2016

It works very well for now, and it’s compatible with Divi, perfect ! thanks

The only one that works

mksd September 3, 2016

The only one that works with version 4.4.2 and Eric was really helpful at providing me with a solution for formatting dates. See: https://github.com/webdeveric/date-format-shortcode

FINALLY!!!

hannesofie September 3, 2016

I have tried numerous plugins to show the content of a specific post in a lightbox – this is the only one that actually works. I use it with Lightbox Plus Colorbox. I am VERY happy right now, thank you very much!

Very good!

v0dkkaa September 3, 2016

I tried other plugins and didn’t worked, but this one work like a charm! I recommend!

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

0.4.0

• Added a filter to allow you to specify the default values for the shortcode attributes.

0.3.2

• Added field attribute so you can specify what content to return.

0.3.1

• By default, this shortcode will only get content of published posts, unless you specify the status attribute.

0.3.0

• I updated the code to temporarily switch to the other post so that shortcodes in the other post will work as expected.

0.2.0

• I updated the code to use the get_post_field function instead of get_post.

0.1.0

• Initial build