Nesting Shortcodes

You can include shortcodes inside the display attribute using double curly braces ({{ ... }} syntax). This allows you to embed other shortcodes—like gravitymath, a nested gravops_search or any other shortcode—within the output for each entry.

Basic Syntax #

Wrap any shortcode inside double curly braces:

[gravops_search display="Sum: {{gravitymath}}2+2{{/gravitymath}}"]

• Works with both self-closing and wrapped shortcodes
• Supports all shortcode attributes
• Placeholders like {13} will be parsed before the nested shortcode is run

When nesting a gravops_search shortcode:

• The outer gravops_search processes its own placeholders in the display string first
• The nested gravops_search processes its own display attribute separately after it runs
• Use the format gos:id (no curly braces) inside nested shortcodes to refer to placeholder values
• Likewise, when referencing entry values inside formulas or shortcode attributes, you may need to use a custom merge tag
  format (see our snippet here). Using standard merge tags like {8} or {gos:8} will break the shortcode. For example:

{{gravitymath scope='view' id='1014' filter='filter_19=gos:21'}}~gos.8.sum~{{/gravitymath}}

This correctly filters by field 21 and calculates the sum of field 8 using special merge tag syntax.

[gravops_search display="Lookup: {{gravops_search target='60' search='1' display='gos:23'}}"]
John
[/gravops_search]

Best Practices & Caveats #

• Don’t mix single and double quotes inside the display attribute—if the outer string uses double quotes, use single quotes inside:

display="{{gravitymath scope='view' id='1014'}}2+2{{/gravitymath}}"

• Even when using the Global Variables plugin, use the double curly brace syntax for your formulas if they are meant to run inside a gravops_search display attribute.
• Shortcodes inside the display string must either:

Examples #

Nested shortcode with computed math:

[gravops_search display="Total: {{gravitymath}}~gos.8+gos.9~{{/gravitymath}}"]

Nested gravops_search to pull related field:

[gravops_search target='60' search='1' sort_key='3' display="Submitted by {16} on {3}. Related: {{gravops_search target='61' search='2' display='gos:23'}}"]
John
[/gravops_search]

This could output something like:

Submitted by John Smith on 2024-07-15. Related: Completed