[Resolved] Custom Shortcode not working inside conditional output

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[vimalS]

Custom Shortcode not working inside conditional output

[Nigel]

Looking at this again, the code that you shared with me in the chat includes commented out lines and lines that don't do anything (related to images), so I'm guessing you got this code from somewhere and made some edits.

Can we start with a cleaner, re-written shortcode and test that?

/**
 * Register read_time shortcode
 */
add_shortcode('read_time', function ($atts = [], $content = null) {

	if ( isset( $content ) ){
		$content = apply_filters( 'the_content', $content );
		$content = wp_strip_all_tags( $content );
		$word_count = count( preg_split( '/\s+/', $content ) );
		return ceil( $word_count / 150 );
	}
});

I changed how you use the shortcode, so that the content to calculate the reading time of is passed as the shortcode content and not as an attribute, which I think is less likely to cause problems when the attribute value could include text with problem characters and tags.

You can supply the content to measure using a types field, or in my case I'm calculating the read time of the actual post content, like so:

[read_time] [wpv-post-body view_template="None"] [/read_time]

I tested it as is, and inside conditional shortcodes, if you could please confirm the same.

[vimalS]

My issue is resolved now. Thank you!