Course ID from Custom Field

[saadmerie]

Hello and thanks for the great plugin,

I want to make the shortcode get the ID from a custom field, what is the proper way to do that? also this can be as feature in future, to be added to the free or pro plugin. thanks and regards.

[flowdee]

Hey, thanks for your suggestion.

It's not really something I would like to integrate into the plugin but I would be happy to help you with this anyway. I created a little snippet for you: It's a new shortcode which gets the custom field value and forwards it to the original shortcode:

/*
 * Custom shortcode for a dynamically created shortcode based on the custom field "my_course_id_cf"
 */
add_shortcode( 'my_udemy', function( $atts ) {

    $course_id = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'my_course_id_cf', true );

    return ( ! empty( $course_id ) ) ? do_shortcode('[ufwp id="' . $course_id . '"]') : null;
});

The code above can be added to the end of the functions.php file of your child-/theme. The name of the shortcode is my_udemy and the custom field key is named my_course_id_cf. Both can be adjusted inside the code. The shortcode will be used as follows:

[my_udemy]

Hope this helps 😃

[saadmerie]

Thanks really, this look like a working one, I will try it later today