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I'm writing a plugin for a wordpress site using a page template using WP Types plugin.

My plugin adds a shortcode tag.

Shortcode tags inside 'the_content' get processed without problem.

But this page template echoes types_render_field(...) WP Types function which gets and returns content containing shortcode tags retrieved from the database using get_post_custom($postid) wordpress core function call.

I want to process these shortcode tags without modifying the template or WP Types plugin, just using my plugin code.

Is that possible?

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  • If this is the plugin, it is commercial. The code is not easy to come by. Ask their support about this. Commented Dec 29, 2013 at 15:45
  • I don't know if it's commercial or not (it's not my deployment), but the code is available for download in wordpress.org: downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/types.1.5.3.zip Commented Dec 29, 2013 at 18:28
  • What is the code for types_render_field? Commented Dec 29, 2013 at 18:42
  • it's on file types/embedded/frontend.php Commented Dec 29, 2013 at 19:40

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I will never understand the point of these wildly complicated "helper" wrapper/plugins... but that aside...

The plugin provides a lot of filters that might help you out. I think that the types_view filter might be what you want. Something like this is a plugin file or your theme functions.php might do it:

add_filter('types_view','do_shortcode');

I do not use that plugin, have never used that plugin, and I am guessing-- a lot-- but I hope that helps.

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  • I still had to unescape and reformat the arguments passed to the shortcode handler function, (I got something like array([0]=>'\\'fieldname\\'='\\'Title\\', ...) instead of array('fieldname'=>'Title', ...))) but it worked. Thank you so much: WP Types is massive and way too complex (I also don't understand where's the benefit: you can probably achieve more or less the same functionality on this site without using it) and this problem was driving me crazy ^^' Commented Dec 30, 2013 at 8:15

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