Error reading Shortcodes in wysiwyg editor

• debharrison

• September 26, 2014 at 10:57 pm

Hi

I have the Advanced Custom Fields Installed on a website. We have a few fields for each page: Header text (editable using the WordPress editor), header image, and a more info and testimonials page: the last 2 are edited using the WYSIWYG editor form ACF

I have been asked to add a gallery image which is installed on our site. However, when I type in the shortcode [matrix 2 /], the editor just display the shortcode in text.

It works ok on the WordPress editor, but we need it further down the page. Is there a workaround so I can enable the shortcode to function correctly in the WYSIWYG editor?

Please could anyone advise? I have some knowledge of PHP and MySQL and can follow step by step instructions.

Many thanks in advance.

• debharrison

• September 30, 2014 at 2:06 am

Ok 3 days no answer. But I found a solution that seems to have fixed it: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-do-i-filter-the-content-for-wysiwyg-editor

• Kellylise

• April 22, 2015 at 2:11 pm

I tried the above PHP – no joy.

• jacobajjarapu

• June 21, 2015 at 3:26 am

This worked for me.

Put this in your functions file:

<?php 
function example_sc( $atts ){
ob_start();
get_template_part('template','part');
return ob_get_clean();
}
add_shortcode( 'example', 'example_sc' );
?>

Put this in your template file:

<?php
if(get_sub_field('wysiwig')):
$wysiwig = do_shortcode(get_sub_field('wysiwig',false, false));
else:
$wysiwig = '';
endif;
?>

<?php echo $wysiwig; ?>