Cmb2: Shortcodes don't work in a wysiwyg field

[yeahsmaggy]

Shortcodes don't work in a wysiwyg field but work in regular wordpress body field in pages. Any idea what might be causing this? I'm specifically using formidable forms, but I've also tried with other shortcodes.

[yeahsmaggy]

I had to wrap the outputted content with do_shortcode.

[jalberts]

Were you not filtering your meta data with the_content? That would probably be your better option:

$wysiwyg = apply_filters( 'the_content', get_post_meta( get_the_id(), $prefix . 'wysiwyg_meta_name', true ) );

Arbitrarily picked variable and meta data names. But something like that instead. Note that my example uses a $prefix variable, instead of how the wiki example does it.

[yeahsmaggy]

$joya_air_page_meta['writers_text'] = do_shortcode(get_post_meta ( $post->ID, '_jo_air_page_writers_text', true ));

[jalberts]

Right, I gotcha. I'm just suggesting that you'll probably want to filter a wysiwyg field through the_content instead of using do_shortcode.

You'll still get your shortcodes resolved, but you'll also get all the normal defaults you'd expect from the standard TinyMCE (wysiwyg) editor.

[jtsternberg]

Downside to using the the_content filter is that it's typically used to output things like social sharing icons, and other things that plugins add. Can be a pain.

The wiki actually has an example function for doing this type of thing: https://github.com/WebDevStudios/CMB2/wiki/Field-Types#wysiwyg

[jalberts]

Good point, and excellent example snippet there!

[pareshsojitra]

I've done this using following code :

$wysiwyg = apply_filters( 'the_content', get_post_meta( get_the_id(), $prefix . 'wysiwyg_meta_name', true ) );

[nvminhtu]

Thanks @yeahsmaggy , the code run well.

[mahmud-sajib]

@jalberts got the best solution
Thank You!