Get custom field value in the shortcode

I forgot to add the main question from the title of this post…

• Maybe the easiest way to display via Pods template a gallery related to current post with layout through one of those cool plugins for galleries would be if I could have a custom field “gallery shortcode” to enter full shortcode for example [gallery_plugin album=premiere layout=masonry columns=4], and then put in a Pods template the value of a field “gallery shortcode” to execute the shortcode on the front-end.

Hope you can explain how to do it in Pods template in any of two ways I was thinking about? Thank you.

Hi @vesnama

Our magic tags are meant for direct output, if you need functionality from other plugins you should see the display filter and use PHP to reformat the output.
https://docs.pods.io/displaying-pods/magic-tags/display-filters-with-magic-tags/

Keep in mind that this is considered advanced usage and documentation is limited because there are simply way to many use cases.
You should look at the gallery/lightbox/slider plugin documentation on how to format the data etc.

Cheers, Jory

I understand this:
{@field_name,any_function}

So I am putting in Pods template this:
{@robo_gallery.ID,show_robo_gallery}

Is this correct to send ID of the robo gallery post to the function?
If I put in the Pods template only {@robo_gallery.ID} then the correct ID is displayed, I tested.

And I understand I must create function show_robo_gallery inside function.php.

But I do not understand how this function is constructed to activate in the Pods template this shortcode

[robo-gallery id=”2068″]

where value for id is the ID value i sent via
{@robo_gallery.ID,show_robo_gallery}

Solved!

Here is the solution for future inquiries…

I added this to function.php (not directly, I’m using plugin Code snippets so I don’t have to worry about wordpress updates overwriting it):

/**
 * Allow Pods Templates to use shortcodes
 *
 * NOTE: Will only work if the constant PODS_SHORTCODE_ALLOW_SUB_SHORTCODES is
 * defined and set to true, which by default it IS NOT.
 */
add_filter( 'pods_shortcode', function( $tags )  {
  $tags[ 'shortcodes' ] = true;
  
  return $tags;
  
});

/**
* Allow shortcodes in a Pods Template
*/
add_filter( 'pods_templates_post_template', 'do_shortcode', 10, 1 );

/**
 * Run shortcodes on the <code>get_the_author_description</code> hook.
 */
add_filter( 'get_the_author_description', 'do_shortcode' );

/**
 * Run shortcodes on the <code>the_content</code> hook.
 */
add_filter( 'the_content', 'do_shortcode' );

And in Pods template I added this:
[robo-gallery id={@robo_gallery.ID}]

And the shortcode using ID value from bidirectional relationship field from custom type Robo gallery displays masonry gallery i wanted! ??????

Excellent! I love Pods! ??????

Great to see you’ve solved it! Thanks for sharing.

Cheers, Jory