[Resolved] Link back to post once message is sent to seller

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[Charles]

Support,

I am trying to create a link that is shown in the display message once a customer successfully sends a message to a seller. I am having trouble successfully linking back to the post. It wants to revert to my "contact seller" page.

Current code:

<div class="woocommerce-message" style="text-align: center;">Your message has been sent to the Seller.</div>
<ul class="nav-single pager">
 	<li class="nav-previous previous"><a href="[motorcycles-info info='id']" rel="prev">" Click here to return to the [motorcycles-info info='post-title']</a></li>
</ul>

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It may be best if I provide my credentials so you can see my link structuring.

Thanks,
Chuck

[Christian Cox]

Okay yes, please provide login credentials and a URL where I can see this message in wp-admin. Private reply fields are enabled here.

[Christian Cox]

Nevermind, I see the login credentials in a separate ticket. I'm working through these now, please stand by.

[Christian Cox]

Hi, can you tell me about this shortcode you are using:

[motorcycles-info info='post-title']

Where is the motorcycles-info shortcode defined? It's not native to Toolset and I don't see it added in your child theme files - is it part of a separate plugin?

[Christian Cox]

Okay thanks.

The main issue is that on the Contact Seller page, shortcodes like [wpv-post-id] and [wpv-post-title] will not refer to the original motorcycle post, they will refer to the Contact Seller page itself. You can use the "id" attribute to reference a different post, but you must know the post's numeric ID. So that's tricky on this page, since it's not related to the motorcycle post.

I see that you are including the listing ID as a URL parameter on the contact seller page. If you're planning to keep that, I can offer this solution:

1. The following code will create a shortcode that gives you access to URL parameters. Add to functions.php:

// Access URL parameters
// Example: [wpv-post-param var='someurlparam']

add_shortcode( 'wpv-post-param', 'wpv_post_param_shortcode' );

function wpv_post_param_shortcode( $atts ) {
  if ( !empty( $atts['var'] ) ) {
    $var = (array)$_GET[$atts['var']];
    return esc_html( implode( ', ', $var ) );
  }
}

2. Access listing-id from the URL and use it to build your link URL and message:

<div class="woocommerce-message" style="text-align: center;">Your message has been sent to the Seller.</div>
<ul class="nav-single pager">
    <li class="nav-previous previous"><a href="/motorcycles/[wpv-post-param var='listing-id']" rel="prev"> Click here to return to the [wpv-post-title id="[wpv-post-param var='listing-id']"]</a></li>
</ul>

Please implement these changes and let me know the results, or let me know how I can test this on your site for myself - I didn't want to assume I can submit the form.

[Charles]

That code did the trick, works great!

Thanks,
Chuck