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Created June 16, 2017 14:32
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  1. @azizultex azizultex created this gist Mar 3, 2016.
    57 changes: 57 additions & 0 deletions WordPress Shortcode with ob_start()
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    function custom_query_shortcode($atts) {

    // EXAMPLE USAGE:
    // [loop the_query="showposts=100&post_type=page&post_parent=453"]

    // Defaults
    extract(shortcode_atts(array(
    "the_query" => ''
    ), $atts));

    // de-funkify query
    $the_query = preg_replace('~&#x0*([0-9a-f]+);~ei', 'chr(hexdec("\\1"))', $the_query);
    $the_query = preg_replace('~&#0*([0-9]+);~e', 'chr(\\1)', $the_query);

    // query is made
    $q = new WP_Query($the_query);
    if($q->have_posts()) :
    ob_start();

    ?>
    <div class="row news-v1">
    <!-- loop start -->
    <?php while ($q->have_posts()): $q->the_post(); ?>
    <div class="col-md-4 md-margin-bottom-40">
    <div class="news-v1-in">
    <?php
    if ( has_post_thumbnail() ) {
    the_post_thumbnail( 'medium', array( 'class' => 'img-responsive' ) );
    }
    ?>
    <h3><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
    <p><?php echo custom_excerpts($post->ID, 25); ?></p>
    <ul class="list-inline news-v1-info">
    <li><span>By </span><?php the_author_posts_link(); ?></li>
    <li>|</li>
    <li><i class="fa fa-clock-o"></i> <?php the_time('M d, Y'); ?></li>
    <li class="pull-right"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php comments_number( '<i class="fa fa-comments-o"></i> 0 comment', '<i class="fa fa-comments-o"></i> 1 Comment', '<i class="fa fa-comments-o"></i> % comments' ); ?></a></li>
    </ul>
    </div>
    </div>
    <?php endwhile; ?>
    <!-- loop end -->
    </div>
    <?php else : ?>
    <p> Nothing found! </p>
    <?php endif; ?>

    <?php

    $output_string = ob_get_contents();
    ob_end_clean();
    return $output_string;
    wp_reset_postdata();

    }
    add_shortcode('loop', 'custom_query_shortcode');
    ?>