Ajax Search Results return ShortCode text without rendering it properly

Anonymous

#273141

Hi there,

I have the following custom Search Results PHP file. Everything works great when the page loads but when AJAX call try to get a new result (After filter criteria change) result shows the content of the shortcode without parsing it properly. How can I enable do_shortcode in AJAX?

if ( $query->have_posts() )
{
    ?>
    Found <?php echo $query->found_posts; ?> Results<br />
    Page <?php echo $query->query['paged']; ?> of <?php echo $query->max_num_pages; ?><br />
    
    <div class="pagination">
        <div class="nav-previous"><?php next_posts_link( 'Next Page', $query->max_num_pages ); ?></div>
        <div class="nav-next"><?php previous_posts_link( 'Previous Page' ); ?></div>
    </div>
    
    <?php
    while ($query->have_posts())
    {
        $query->the_post();
        global $parent;
        $parent = $query->post;
        echo do_shortcode(get_post_field('post_content', 1)); 
    }
    ?>
    Page <?php echo $query->query['paged']; ?> of <?php echo $query->max_num_pages; ?><br />
    
    <div class="pagination">
        <div class="nav-previous"><?php next_posts_link( 'Next Page', $query->max_num_pages ); ?></div>
        <div class="nav-next"><?php previous_posts_link( 'Previous Page' ); ?></div>
    </div>
    <?php
}
else
{
    echo "No Results Found";
}

Trevor

#273161

Is the content made with WPBakery Page Builder?

Are you able to send me a live link/URL to your search page so I can take a look?

Anonymous

#273253

I found many issues and fix one and find a workaround for the second. Unfortunately, my client website is behind the company firewall and I cannot share the page with you, but I can explain my findings.

The first issue was with WPBakery which got fixed by adding the below command right before do_shortcode command:

// Enable shortcodes
WPBMap::addAllMappedShortcodes();

Then part of the result fixed but still, there were some components shortcodes that were not rendering properly. My workaround was dropping that component and using [acf ...] shortcode to leverage ACF fields in the WPBakery. It’s not ideal but it at least worked fine for my use-case.

Do you have any suggestions for using ACF fields in WPBackery?

Trevor

#273257

What you might need is to add a plugin that allows you to create your own ‘normal’ shortcodes (the ones from WP Bakery are not normal) that can include PHP. I use the plugin mentioned here:

https://pagely.com/blog/create-reusable-content-wordpress/

And then use the PHP snippets from ACF in that.

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