[Support request] category specific side bar

Hi Mike,

You’ll need a helper function for that.

Tom wrote a PHP snippet for this.

It’s this one:

add_shortcode('dynamic_wpsp', function($atts){
    $queriedArchive = get_queried_object();
    $atts = shortcode_atts( array(
			'id' => ''
		), $atts, 'dynamic_wpsp' );

    $settings = array(
        'taxonomy' => $queriedArchive->taxonomy,
        'tax_term' => $queriedArchive->slug,
    );
 
    ob_start();
    wpsp_display( $atts['id'], $settings );
    return ob_get_clean();
});

It’s a snippet for a shortcode and the usage is [dynamic_wpsp id="1234"] where 1234 is the WPSP ID.

Hi – sorry to hijack, I am trying to achieve the exact same thing. Have added the snippet to functions however the shortcode outputs my most recent posts from all categories rather than posts from the same category – do I need to apply any settings in the WPSP frontend?

Can you specify what page did you add the shortcode?

The specific shortcode was written for WPSP added on archive page. If you use it on a static page, it won’t know what taxonomy to use because static pages normally don’t have taxonomy assigned to them.

Well, we can modify the shortcode a bit so it takes the taxonomy terms of the current post.

Try this:

add_shortcode('dynamic_wpsp', function($atts){
	
	$posttax = 'category';
	$queriedPost = get_the_terms( get_the_ID(), $posttax );
	foreach ( $queriedPost as $tax ) {
		$arg_slug = $tax->slug;
	}
	
    $queriedArchive = get_queried_object();
    $atts = shortcode_atts( array(
			'id' => ''
		), $atts, 'dynamic_wpsp' );

	if(is_archive()){
		$settings = array(
			'taxonomy' => $queriedArchive->taxonomy,
			'tax_term' => $queriedArchive->slug,
		);
	} 
	
	if(is_single()){
		$settings = array(
			'tax_term' => $arg_slug,
		);
	}
 
    ob_start();
    wpsp_display( $atts['id'], $settings );
    return ob_get_clean();
});

No problem. Glad to be of any help. 😀