Change wordpress shortcode with Javascript

Question

let's say I have a wordpress shortcode, in a page (not post), like [display id="144,145,146"] and I want to add a link in the page like "click here to sort by views", so I can click the link and a javascript function can change the shortcode, putting different ids. Is it possible?

Answer 1

This is not possible without using AJAX unless you load you load all of the different short code options beforehand.

Preloading Shortcodes:

 $('#change-shortcode').on('click', function() { $('.shortcode-container').toggleClass('hidden'); }); 

 .hidden { display: none; } 

 <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <div class="shortcode-container">[display id="144,145,146"]</div> <div class="shortcode-container hidden">[display id="147,148,149"]</div> <br/><br/> <a id="change-shortcode">Click Here</a> 

Fetching Shortcodes with AJAX:

// Add the "fetch_shortcode" AJAX action.
add_action('wp_ajax_nopriv_fetch_shortcode', 'fetch_shortcode');
add_action('wp_ajax_fetch_shortcode', 'fetch_shortcode');


function fetch_shortcode() {
  if (isset($_POST['ids'])) {
    $ids = implode(',', $_POST['ids']);

    // ob_start and ob_get_clean will prevent the shortcode from displaying and instead will return the value to the $html variable.
    ob_start();
    do_shortcode('[display id="' . $ids . '"]');
    $html = ob_get_clean();

    wp_send_json_success($html);
  }
}

On the front end, you would have this:

<div id="shortcode-container">[display id="144,145,146"]</div>

<br/><br/>

<a id="change-shortcode">Click Here</a>

<script>
  $('#change-shortcode').on('click', function() {
      // This is where you get to use the 'fetch_shortcode' action name that you created above.
      data = {
        ids: [147, 148, 149],
        action: 'fetch_shortcode'
      };

      $.ajax({
        url: "<?php echo admin_url('admin-ajax.php') ?>",
        method: "POST",
        data: data
      }).done(function(response) {
        $('#shortcode-container').html(response.data);
      });
  });
</script>