Shortcode & Buttons in Elementor

  • Resolved stevethebeef

    (@stevethebeef)


    6 years, 3 months ago

    Hi.

    I have a shortcode that generates a Buddypress “Add as Friend” Link.
    Now i would like to use this Shortcode with an Elementor Button.

    Is there a simple way to do this? Adding a shortcode to a button?

    Thanks in advance

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  • Currently, you cannot add shortcodes to buttons

    born2fly2

    (@born2fly2)

    Well if that’s the case then why is there an option under buttons to add shortcodes?? It’s very confusing. I’ve just spent the entire day wrestling with trying to get a shortcode to work with a button.That feature should be disabled from that menu then!!

    • This reply was modified 6 years ago by born2fly2.
    • This reply was modified 6 years ago by born2fly2.

    I was having an issue with a button shortcode and found this thread. First, just to confirm that button link shortcodes do work now but I was not seeing the button’s href attribute being populated on the front-end.

    It turned out there was no problem with my shortcode which was returning a dynamic get_field ACF value. I realised that I was testing using the ‘View page’ Elementor link, which was showing the template page, not the URL of a real content page. Viewing the template via the real content’s URL made it work fine. It is also possible to set the Preview Settings in Elementor to a real piece of content, then when hovering over the button I can see the URL is being correctly applied.

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