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Erica Yoroni
3,264 PointsMay you kindly help with the following code that is not working.
error inc/front-end.php must be required
<?php function my_plugin_shortcode ($atts, $content = null) { global $post; extract(shortcode_atts( array( 'num_courses' => '4' ), $atts)); }; ?>
function my_plugin_shortcode ($atts, $content = null) {
extract(shortcode_atts(array( 'num_courses' => '4' ), $atts) ); ob_start(); require( 'inc/front-end.php' ); $content = ob_get_clean(); return $content; }
?>
<?php
function my_plugin_shortcode ($atts, $content = null) { global $post; extract(shortcode_atts( array( 'num_courses' => '4' ), $atts)); }; ?>
function my_plugin_shortcode ($atts, $content = null) {
extract(shortcode_atts(array(
'num_courses' => '4'
), $atts) );
ob_start();
require( 'inc/front-end.php' );
$content = ob_get_clean();
return $content;
}
?>
2 Answers
Nathan Thomas
13,477 PointsHello,
The issue may be with your PHP syntax. You have a closing php tag after your function definition, hence the greyed out code below it.
If removing it doesn’t fix the error message, check out this Wordpress article, which may help.
https://codex.wordpress.org/Determining_Plugin_and_Content_Directories
Erica Yoroni
3,264 PointsThanks