WP Admin menu for members

What plugin or theme is responsible for this custom dashboard? It’s not the standard default WP dashboard. I recommend asking through the dedicated support channel of the responsible module. The expert users and devs there will have better knowledge of the code that’s involved to modify custom dashboard links and to add (or not add) items in the left menu.

The plugin for the dashboard is from divilife. But its a normal site build with the theme builder. The left menu is the normal WordPress menu. My problem is I want to have a link that dynamically leads to the members page. I have now set up a shortcode that deliver the url. But I can not find a solution how to use the shortcode in a link or button.

If you want the link in the left menu, that’s feasible, but the destination would need to dynamically deliver member specific content, whether by how the page is coded or by redirect, it doesn’t matter. But the menu scheme itself doesn’t generate individual specific links. For example, we cannot have a dynamic user based menu link like /member/bcworks/, but a generic menu link like /member/ could figure out I’m the current user and redirect me to /member/bcworks/, or generate dynamic content directly. A shortcode is of little use in the left menu, other than the menu item’s callback could call the shortcode handler and do something with the returned content.

If instead you want to use the shortcode in the divllife dashboard, it could be done if there’s an available action hook. The action callback could then do something like
echo do_shortcode('[your-shortcode-name]');

I have wrote a function for a shortcode that delivers the url I want to link at.

function custom_shortcode_func1() {
	ob_start();
	$current_user = wp_get_current_user();
	return 'https://dein-sachsenheim.de/wp-admin/post.php?post=' . $current_user->wwp3_contact_sponsor_id . '&action=edit';
	$output = ob_get_clean();
    return $output;
}
add_shortcode('site_url', 'custom_shortcode_func1');

But the Divi text modul does not translate the shortcode in the link url. This would be the best solution. Now I use a href link with the shortcode an it works.

It might help if your shortcode returned the entire anchor link instead of just the URL.

FWIW you don’t really need the output buffer stuff in this situation for the shortcode to work.

Shortcodes work in post content because the do_shortcode() function is hooked into “the_content” filter. The dashboard doesn’t do this, hence your shortcode doesn’t work as expected. If dashboard output is filtered, you could do something similar. Alternately, if an action hook is available (which is more likely), you could add a callback that directly outputs your desired link.

We don’t have access to divilife source code so we cannot advise about specific hooks. Look through the source code for the dashboard elements where you want the link to appear and look for apply_filters() and do_action() calls.