Trouble using wordpress functions in a pop-up modal form

  • gpspake

    (@gpspake)


    12 years ago

    I’m working on a plugin and I’ve added a button to the tinymce editor that pops up a modal form, with options for the shortcode, and then inserts the shortcode with the selected options in to the post.

    The modal pops up a php file with an html form and some javascript in it. I’d like to use wp_dropdown_categories() inside of the form instead of having a text input for cats.

    Here’s a snippet. I have the original textbox I was using for category commented out and I was trying to stick that wp function in instead but it’s not working. WHat am I missing here? I can’t figure out if there’s something I need to be calling like a class or some global variable.

    <?php
    ?>
    <head>
    <title>Box Shortcode</title> 

    ...Some more html and some js...       

    <input type="radio" name="tax" value="category" id="selcat">

    <?php wp_dropdown_categories(); ?> //This doesn't work

    <!--<div class="input-append">
        <input type="text" name="category" id="catselection" class="categorynamebox" placeholder="Category" value="" disabled="disabled" />
    </div>-->
    <label for="randomcat">
    <input type="checkbox" id="randomcat" disabled="disabled" >
    Use a random category
    </label>

    ..some more html and js...

    </body>
    <?php

    ?>
  • The topic ‘Trouble using wordpress functions in a pop-up modal form’ is closed to new replies.