I need to create a shortcode in a plugin, when a person gets to install my plugin can he use shortcode inside the plugin :

that's my code plugin is working 100% but when I call to shortcode [splite] nothing returned

class aligoPlugin
{
    public function __construct()
    {
        // hooks
        add_action( 'init',  array($this,'register_shortcodes') );
    }

    // activate
    public function activate()
    {
        $this->splite_article();
        // add_shortcode('splite', 'splite_article');
        // flush rewrite rules
        flush_rewrite_rules();
    }

    // functions
    function register_shortcodes(){
        add_shortcode('splite', 'splite_article');
    }

    // shortCodes
    function splite_article()
    {
        $content = "hhhhh";
        echo $content;
    }
}
if (class_exists('aligoPlugin'))
    $aligo = new aligoPlugin();

// activation
register_activation_hook(__FILE__, array($aligo,'activate'));

I need to create a shortcode in a plugin, when a person gets to install my plugin can he use shortcode inside the plugin :

that's my code plugin is working 100% but when I call to shortcode [splite] nothing returned

class aligoPlugin
{
    public function __construct()
    {
        // hooks
        add_action( 'init',  array($this,'register_shortcodes') );
    }

    // activate
    public function activate()
    {
        $this->splite_article();
        // add_shortcode('splite', 'splite_article');
        // flush rewrite rules
        flush_rewrite_rules();
    }

    // functions
    function register_shortcodes(){
        add_shortcode('splite', 'splite_article');
    }

    // shortCodes
    function splite_article()
    {
        $content = "hhhhh";
        echo $content;
    }
}
if (class_exists('aligoPlugin'))
    $aligo = new aligoPlugin();

// activation
register_activation_hook(__FILE__, array($aligo,'activate'));

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• shortcode

1 Answer 1

There are 2 major bugs here

Problem 1: Your shortcode registration is invalid

You should be seeing lots of messages about this in your PHP error log

add_shortcode('splite', 'splite_article');

There is no function named splite_article, there's a class function but the code didn't tell it to use it. So instead of calling your shortcode function, it generates a PHP error message and puts it in the log.

add_shortcode expects a PHP callable value, so splite_article is equivalent to splite_article(), but you need $this->splite_article().

So instead use the appropriate callable [ $this, 'splite_article' ]

Problem 2: Shortcodes do not echo

echo $content;

That's not how shortcodes work, shortcode callbacks do not echo HTML, they return it. This shortcode will be breaking a lot of things as a result of this.

Luckily the solution is simple, return the shortcodes content instead.