Get shortcode of form programmatically, using form’s ID
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I’d like to use a contact form in a general template like
single.php, but I’d like to be able to configure which form is included in the template as a site option. The shortcode should not appear in thepost_content, it should be coded into the template.But instead of a hardcoded form value like
[contact-form-7 id="e07e78b" title="Inquire about this work"], I’d like to be able to configure which form appears.Using ACF, I can store a specific
contact_formas a siteoption. (contact_formis a post_type, so i can pick which form I want to store in the option, and access it elsewhere viaget_field.)I’m trying to understand if there’s a way to use that form’s ID to get the generated shortcode for that form. I notice that the form shortcode
iddoes not correspond to the form’spost_idin the database, and I can’t find where it’s stored in thepost_metaof the form, either.I do find that there’s a method of
WPCF7_ContactFormcalledshortcode()that generates the shortcode. I’m wondering how I can pass the form$postobject and get the generated shortcode for it, in a template.
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This worked. Thanks for the plugin!
My ACF
optionsfieldinquiry_formis set up to return the full$postinstance, but you can just return theIDand modify a bit below.if ($contact_form = get_field('inquiry_form', 'options')) {
// this is what gets the instance of the form with the shortcode() method
$full_form = WPCF7_ContactForm::get_instance($contact_form->ID)
// note that the instance, not the post, has the method available.
$shortcode = esc_attr($full_form->shortcode());
// you need to translate the html entities back to text
echo apply_shortcodes( html_entity_decode($shortcode) );
}
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