Architect the Shortcode

The feature from the product backlog says that we need to develop a shortcode that embeds a single FAQ or a group of FAQs by a single topic. Hum, how are we going to accomplish this with one shortcode? We can use the user-defined attributes to let the author tell us which one to process. We can do the following:

[faq post_id="43"]

[faq topic="billing-and-payments"]

Therefore, we are building a faq shortcode with two different user-defined attributes: post_id and topic.

How are we going to process these two different requests?

For the single FAQ, we get the post ID. Therefore, we can use get_post to go grab the post that we want and then process using it.

For the topic request, we need to go grab all of the FAQs for the specified topic slug. We have multiple ways to do this, but let’s use WP_Query and it’s tax query argument.

Let’s talk our way through the strategy and build the basic architecture. How do we want to process the different views? How do we process the different requests? Let’s talk about the architecture and strategy.