Wordpress - Shortcode inside shortcode

Question

I try to make a shortcode like

add_shortcode( 'test', 'test' );
function test( $atts, $content = null ) {
    $html = '<div>'.do_shortcode( $content ).'</div>';
    return $html;
}

I try some thing like [test][test]this is test[/test][/test] But that not working.

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How to fix that. Thanks

can you post code?

Mukesh Panchal
– Mukesh Panchal

2016-12-24 11:35:54 +00:00
Commented Dec 24, 2016 at 11:35 — Mukesh Panchal
– Mukesh Panchal, Commented Dec 24, 2016 at 11:35

birgire · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-25 14:18:23Z

1

This is a limitation of the shortcode parser.

You can check out this entry from the Codex on the shortcode API, where it says:

However the parser will fail if a shortcode macro is used to enclose another macro of the same name:
[tag-a]   
    [tag-a]    
    [/tag-a] 
 [/tag-a]
This is a limitation of the context-free regexp parser used by do_shortcode() - it is very fast but does not count levels of nesting, so it can't match each opening tag with its correct closing tag in these cases.

edited Jul 25, 2014 at 14:18

answered Jul 25, 2014 at 14:12

birgire

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Ivan Over a year ago

birgire is right. You can use it like this [test][test_a]content here[/test_a][/test]

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