I'm trying to insert an embed post of Instagram via code using do_shortcode function. This is the shortcode example that Instagram gives on the embed documentation:
[instagram url=https://www.instagram.com/p/bNd86MSFv6/ hidecaption=true width=320]
So I'm trying to call it like this:
echo do_shortcode('[instagram url=https://www.instagram.com/p/bNd86MSFv6/ hidecaption=true width=320]');
The result I'm having is like I was using only the echo function, the shortcode comes as plain text on the browser.
The page that I'm editing is the single.php. And I did a test using a contact form 7 shortcode, it works normally with do_shortcode.
Am I missing something?
Are you trying to insert this code in your pages/posts, or a template file?
For pages/posts, all you need is:
[instagram url="https://www.instagram.com/p/bNd86MSFv6/" hidecaption=true width=320]
For template files:
echo do_shortcode('[instagram url="https://www.instagram.com/p/bNd86MSFv6/" hidecaption=true width=320]')
Since you are not using a plugin, the shortcode has not been defined. You can either use a plugin ( https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-instagram-embed/ ) or define the shortcode using Mark's suggestion.
Have you created the code for [instagram]? Please post this code for us.
Put this in your functions.php file:
function my_awesome_shortcode( $atts, $content = null ) {
echo "This is my shortcode";
}
add_shortcode( 'awesome', 'my_awesome_shortcode' );
now put:
echo do_shortcode('[my_awesome_shortcode]');
into your single .php file. What is the result? if you get
This is my shortcode
Then it is working, you can use this template to build your instagram one.