template modification – query if shortcode is used

Hi Victoria,
in particular this is to promote events which are organised in a category. Depending on the type of event 2 scenarios can occur: 1. default layerslider (which is implemented in the template-builder.php via do_shortcode) 2. for some events an own slider set shall be used. 90% of the events posts are using the default slider so it makes sense to hardcode it for usabuility reasons for my customer – however, there should be the option to override this by using a slider page builder for some special events posts.
Thanks Christoph

Hi Victoria,
I really enjoyed the quality of support in the past for some technical questions (especially Isamel is very capable to lead into the right direction or provide a straight solution right away).
My question is a bit linked to this post: https://kriesi.at/support/topic/using-shortcode-in-template/
the only difference is that instead of echoing a shortcode in the template I would like to check if the shortcode is used.
There is already a WordPress function:
`<?php
$content = ‘This is some text, (perhaps pulled via $post->post_content). It has a [gallery] shortcode.’;

if( has_shortcode( $content, ‘gallery’ ) ) {
// The content has a [gallery] short code, so this check returned true.
}
?>
What I need to know is how to query the use of the layerslider (is it just [avia_layerslider] or with ID etc.). Anything else I mentioned in my previous post can be managed by myself.
So I don´t think it´s that complicated to answer and I am not asking for a customization of the theme.
Thanks for your help!
Best regards
Christoph

solution for anyone with same challenge (better solution might be available). It seems the avia shortcode is not treated as wordpress shortcode….

//check if we got a layerslider
				global $wpdb;
				
				// Table name
				$table_name = $wpdb->prefix . "layerslider";
				
				// Get slider
				$slider = $wpdb->get_row("SELECT * FROM $table_name
										WHERE id = ".(int)$atts['id']." AND flag_hidden = '0'
										AND flag_deleted = '0'
										ORDER BY date_c DESC LIMIT 1" , ARRAY_A);
and then you can make your query:
if ( in_category('yourcategory')  &&  !empty($slider)) {do something}

Best Christoph

Hi Jordan,
thanks – topic can be closed.

Have a good day!
Chris