how to insert shortcode into wordpress menu - wordpress

Question

I have made a menu item with this code.
The menu item shows up but the shortcode output is not there.
Is there something I can add or a different method that will do this.
I have added also in hopes this might help.
add_filter('wp_nav_items', 'do_shortcode', 7);
Or maybe someone knows this is not possible and can tell me.
/* Nav Menu */
function add_profile_link_to_nav(){
if ( is_user_logged_in() ) { ?>
<ul>
<li class="menu-item"id="one"> All Members
<ul class="sub-menu">
<li class="menu-item"><?php echo custom_execute_shortcode(); ?> </li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul> <!--end menu--->
<?php }
}
add_action( "wp_nav_items","add_profile_link_to_nav" );
function custom_execute_shortcode() {
$myfunction= '[my shortcode"]';
$myfunction_parsed = do_shortcode($myfunction);
return $myfunction_parsed;
}
Thanks

Answer 1

#Tim
This code will work
put it in functions.php file
add_filter('wp_nav_menu_items', 'do_shortcode');

Answer 2

You can't use shortcodes directly in the menu URL on the menu page, because the brackets get stripped out. But you can use placeholders like this: #profile_link#.
With the following code in functions.php, you can create a custom menu item with the URL #profile_link#, and it will replace that with your shortcode.
/**
* Filters all menu item URLs for a #placeholder#.
*
* #param WP_Post[] $menu_items All of the nave menu items, sorted for display.
*
* #return WP_Post[] The menu items with any placeholders properly filled in.
*/
function my_dynamic_menu_items( $menu_items ) {
// A list of placeholders to replace.
// You can add more placeholders to the list as needed.
$placeholders = array(
'#profile_link#' => array(
'shortcode' => 'my_shortcode',
'atts' => array(), // Shortcode attributes.
'content' => '', // Content for the shortcode.
),
);
foreach ( $menu_items as $menu_item ) {
if ( isset( $placeholders[ $menu_item->url ] ) ) {
global $shortcode_tags;
$placeholder = $placeholders[ $menu_item->url ];
if ( isset( $shortcode_tags[ $placeholder['shortcode'] ] ) ) {
$menu_item->url = call_user_func(
$shortcode_tags[ $placeholder['shortcode'] ]
, $placeholder['atts']
, $placeholder['content']
, $placeholder['shortcode']
);
}
}
}
return $menu_items;
}
add_filter( 'wp_nav_menu_objects', 'my_dynamic_menu_items' );
You just need to set 'shortcode' in the $placeholders array, and optionally 'atts' and 'content'.
For example, if your shortcode is like this:
[example id="5" other="test"]Shortcode content[/example]
You would update:
'#placeholder#' => array(
'shortcode' => 'example';
'atts' => array( 'id' => '5', 'other' => 'test' );
'content' => 'Shortcode content';
),
Note that I don't use do_shortcode() because it is a resource intensive function and isn't the right tool for the job in this case.

Answer 3

Enable description on the menu page, paste to the description textarea of the link your shortcode, in functions.php add next code:
add_filter('walker_nav_menu_start_el', function($item_output, $item) {
if (!is_object($item) || !isset($item->object)) {
return $item_output;
}
if ($item->ID === 829) {
$item_output = do_shortcode($item->description);
}
return $item_output;
}, 20, 2);