[Support request] Template Tags not working

[Mark]

I made a Block Element to use as a page header. Hooked it into generate_after_navigation. It’s appearing as it’s supposed to but the template tag just shows as text…{{Post_title}}

It’s not pulling in the actual title like it did in “the old days”.

Is there another way to use the template tags now?

Thanks.

[Elvin]

Hi,

{{post_title}} and other template tags only work within the Header Element (not block elements).

That said, you’ll need a plugin that displays dynamic text to display within your Block element layout.

Alternatively, you can write your own shortcodes that display dynamic texts.

Example: “A shortcode that displays the page/post title”

function dynamic_title_function( $atts ) {
    $atts = shortcode_atts(
        array(
            'tag' => '',
            'style' => '',
        ), $atts, 'dynamic_title' );

    $tag = $atts['tag'];
    $style = $atts['style'];
    $output = '';
    if(!empty($tag)){
        $output = sprintf( '<%1$s style="%3$s"> %2$s </%1$s>',
			$tag,
			esc_html( get_the_title() ),
			$style
		);
    } else {
        $ouput = esc_html( get_the_title() );
    }

    echo $output;
}
add_shortcode( 'dynamic_title', 'dynamic_title_function' );

With this snippet, you can use [dynamic_title tag="h1" style="color:red;"] on your block element to display page title.

Note: I’ve written this shortcode in a way where if you only want the string, you can just use [dynamic_title] without the attributes.

You can also make this for other things like meta terms.

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