Shortcodes in Custom Menu Items

[Jesse Friedman]

Is it possible to put a shortcode like [siteURL]/about-us in a custom menu
link?

I know it isn't out of the box, but it doesn't look as easy as enabling
shortcodes in widgets and I can't find any documentation.
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[Nicholas Ciske]

This will do it:

add_filter('wp_nav_menu', 'do_menu_shortcodes');
function do_menu_shortcodes( $menu ){
return do_shortcode( $menu );
}
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Post by Jesse Friedman
Is it possible to put a shortcode like [siteURL]/about-us in a custom menu
link?
I know it isn't out of the box, but it doesn't look as easy as enabling
shortcodes in widgets and I can't find any documentation.
--
thanks
*jesse friedman*
jes.se.com *
*

[Jesse Friedman]

Hi Nick

I appreciate the help, yet it doesn't work. While it may return and do the
shortcode, the actual saving of the custom link strips the [ ] and you're
left with http://siteURL/about-us rather than http://[siteURL]/about-us

Post by Nicholas Ciske
add_filter('wp_nav_menu', 'do_menu_shortcodes');
function do_menu_shortcodes( $menu ){
return do_shortcode( $menu );
}
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http://thoughtrefinery.com/
@nciske

Post by Jesse Friedman
Is it possible to put a shortcode like [siteURL]/about-us in a custom

menu

Post by Jesse Friedman
link?
I know it isn't out of the box, but it doesn't look as easy as enabling
shortcodes in widgets and I can't find any documentation.
--
thanks
*jesse friedman*
jes.se.com *
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[Nicholas Ciske]

I tested the code and it worked fine for me... [shortcode] showed up (using a custom menu item), then the shortcode output showed up when I wired it to a function.

Something outside core (theme or plugin) is filtering your menus and stripping out the [].

You could also do %SITEURL% or {SITEURL} (or whatever does not get stripped, even just SITEURL) and use str_replace instead of a shortcode solution.

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Post by Jesse Friedman
Hi Nick
I appreciate the help, yet it doesn't work. While it may return and do the
shortcode, the actual saving of the custom link strips the [ ] and you're
left with http://siteURL/about-us rather than http://[siteURL]/about-us

[Jesse Friedman]

To be clear you're able to put the shortcode in the URL Field of a Custom
Link in the menus section of the admin?

My shortcodes are being stripped on save and I even tried it with a fresh
WordPress 3.5.1 install, with no plugins running 2012.

Post by Nicholas Ciske
I tested the code and it worked fine for me... [shortcode] showed up
(using a custom menu item), then the shortcode output showed up when I
wired it to a function.
Something outside core (theme or plugin) is filtering your menus and stripping out the [].
You could also do %SITEURL% or {SITEURL} (or whatever does not get
stripped, even just SITEURL) and use str_replace instead of a shortcode
solution.
_________________________
Nick Ciske
http://thoughtrefinery.com/
@nciske

Post by Jesse Friedman
Hi Nick
I appreciate the help, yet it doesn't work. While it may return and do

the

Post by Jesse Friedman
shortcode, the actual saving of the custom link strips the [ ] and

you're

Post by Jesse Friedman
left with http://siteURL/about-us rather than http://[siteURL]/about-us

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[Nicholas Ciske]

Oh bugger, I put it in the label field -- sorry! The URL must get sanitized on save which would remove [] as they are not valid characters for a domain.

So, SITEURL with str_replace appears to be the way to go as that should be legal and never occur in a real URL. You could use _SITEURL_ to be extra safe.

add_filter('wp_nav_menu', 'menu_shortcodes');
function menu_shortcodes( $menu ){
return str_replace( '_SITEURL_', home_url(), do_shortcode( $menu ) );
}

This will allow you to have site agnostic URLs and shortcodes in labels. Tweak as needed.

I tested this one and it worked with WP 3.5.1 and a Genesis theme. Can't imagine it won’t work for you.

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@nciske

Post by Jesse Friedman
To be clear you're able to put the shortcode in the URL Field of a Custom
Link in the menus section of the admin?
My shortcodes are being stripped on save and I even tried it with a fresh
WordPress 3.5.1 install, with no plugins running 2012.

[Nicholas Ciske]

Oops, had an extra http:// in there due to the way URLs get sanitized.

Moving the code to a gist:
https://gist.github.com/nciske/5681384

Out of curiosity, why not just use a relative URL like /test/ vs inserting the site url in front?

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@nciske

Post by Nicholas Ciske
add_filter('wp_nav_menu', 'menu_shortcodes');
function menu_shortcodes( $menu ){
return str_replace( '_SITEURL_', home_url(), do_shortcode( $menu ) );
}
This will allow you to have site agnostic URLs and shortcodes in labels. Tweak as needed.

[Jesse Friedman]

Thanks for this Nicholas, that's what i needed.

The reason is I want to be able to do http://subdomain._siteURL_/about-us
so that i can link to subdomain sites that are prelive

Post by Nicholas Ciske
Oops, had an extra http:// in there due to the way URLs get sanitized.
https://gist.github.com/nciske/5681384
Out of curiosity, why not just use a relative URL like /test/ vs inserting
the site url in front?
_________________________
Nick Ciske
http://thoughtrefinery.com/
@nciske

Post by Nicholas Ciske
add_filter('wp_nav_menu', 'menu_shortcodes');
function menu_shortcodes( $menu ){
return str_replace( '_SITEURL_', home_url(), do_shortcode( $menu )

);

Post by Nicholas Ciske
}
This will allow you to have site agnostic URLs and shortcodes in labels.

Tweak as needed.
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