Blog Posts: Automatically display author, date, and categories?

Thanks Victoria:

I figured the following:

for Post Title:

function post_title_shortcode(){
	global $post;
	return get_the_title($post->ID);
}
add_shortcode( 'sc_post_title', 'post_title_shortcode' );

For Post Date:

function post_date_shortcode(){
	global $post;
	return get_the_date('Y-m-d', $post->ID);
}
add_shortcode( 'sc_post_date', 'post_date_shortcode' );

For Post Category:

function post_category_shortcode(){
global $post;
return get_the_category($post->ID);
}
add_shortcode( ‘sc_post_category’, ‘post_category_shortcode’ );

Now what would I need for Post Author?

Thanks,
Magnus

Hi Victoria:

a bit late but still – success – almost! I now can automatically include post title, date and author into a blog post. What does not work is the category – it always returns ‘Array’ as a display.

Here is the function I used – what is wrong? Note that I might have more than one category for a single post.

function post_category_shortcode(){
global $post;
return get_the_category($post->ID);
}
add_shortcode( 'sc_post_category', 'post_category_shortcode' );

Thanks!
Magnus

• This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by mbosse99.

Excellent, thanks a lot – that solved it!