#12982: Shortcodes don't allow shortcodes in attributes
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Reporter: Atoon | Owner:
Type: feature request | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Future Release
Component: Shortcodes | Version: 3.0
Severity: normal | Keywords: needs-unit-tests
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Comment(by mikeschinkel):
Replying to [comment:6 Atoon]:
> It allow a shortcode to display an icon and allow brackets inside quotes
to have wiki-like internal links, with a plugin. Also, having it like a
shortcode helps to change the layout later while retaining the data.
Ahhh. So it's your desire to mix wiki-like functionality with shortcode
functionality using the same syntax as MediaWiki. IMO, not a good idea.
I would argue the following would be much better in the context of
WordPress and it's something you can do today w/o enhancements to core
simply by writing your own shortcode:
{{{
[infobox-cd
name="Abbey Road"
cover="/laserdisc.jpg"
artist="The Bombay Beach Boys"
prev="{{The Wall}}"
next="{{Born in the U.S.A.}}"]
[country id="mx"][flag] Argentina[/country]
[country id="dk"][flag] Vanuatu (post-production)[/country]
[rating stars="3"]
[/infobox]
}}}
> In general I want to have more wiki-like functionality in WordPress.
MediaWiki has everything I need but feels overwhelming for private use,
adds to many stuff and pages I don't need
Sounds good, but I think you are better off using a different internal
link syntax than MediaWiki, like the double braces I suggested by
implication in my example.
Each syntax has it's appropriate context and within WordPress wikipedia's
exact syntax just isn't appropriate. Personally I wanted to see
[http://bitworking.org/projects/URI-Templates/ URI Template] syntax used
for permalink structures because it's likely to become a standard but
finally realized that in WordPress URL templates using the "%var%" syntax
and I became "one" with it.
> and you can't have pretty permalinks (yeah, that's an issue).
Yeah you can, it's just a lot of work (but getting easier.) Hook
"template_redirect" and you can do whatever you want.
You might also be interested in the ticket I'd like to most see included
in core: #12935.
> Of course, not ''every'' wiki-like function should be on core as several
stuff exist as plugins or even in core like revisions, but at least some
current core stuff can be tweaked a bit to don't resort to much hacking.
You can get the above without any hacking of core. And frankly, it seems
like a pretty elegant syntax, IMO.
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