I had the need to use this on a site on which I’m working and thought I’d share it here.
Quite simply it allows you to write a shortcode in a post thus:
This will insert the content from page ID 45 into your post/page.
/**
* Create a shortcode to insert content of a page of specified ID
*
* @param array attributes of shortcode
* @return string $output Content of page specified, if no page id specified output = null
*/
function pa_insertPage($atts, $content = null) {
// Default output if no pageid given
$output = NULL;
// extract atts and assign to array
extract(shortcode_atts(array(
"page" => '' // default value could be placed here
), $atts));
// if a page id is specified, then run query
if (!empty($page)) {
$pageContent = new WP_query();
$pageContent->query(array('page_id' => $page));
while ($pageContent->have_posts()) : $pageContent->the_post();
// assign the content to $output
$output = get_the_content();
endwhile;
}
return $output;
}
add_shortcode('pa_insert', 'pa_insertPage');
This shortcode could easily be expanded to allow a lot of other ‘inserts’ and can also be used in your theme’s template files by using do_shortcode() function, e.g.:
<?php echo do_shortcode('[pa_insert page="1228"]');?>
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