Shortcodes within other shortcode\'s attributes

• auroric.designs

• March 10, 2015 at 2:59 am

How is it possible to add an acf shortcode in another shortcode’s attribute?

for example:
[otherShortcode attr="[acf field='field_name']"]

• auroric.designs

• March 10, 2015 at 10:44 pm

I found that you can change the square brackets [] to {}, for example:
[otherShortcode attr="{acf field='field_name'}"]
but that didn’t work for me!

Any suggestions?!

• James

• April 9, 2016 at 8:51 pm

Hi @auroric-designs ,

Thanks for the post.

Unfortunately ACF shortcodes cannot be used within other shortcodes.

The API expects the shortcodes to be called from within the WYSIWYG editor and will only work for simple text based values.