Mastering WordPress Shortcodes

Mark Ghosh — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:30:04 +0000

Mastering WordPress Shortcodes.: Smashing Magazine had a nice instructional writeup on mastering WordPress shortcodes and creating new ones to make one’s blogging life easier. Shortcodes are small peices of pre-determined code (viewable in the HTML version of a post) that are later expanded by WordPress when a post is published and subsequently displayed. Shortcodes are already used by WordPress for many internal functions such as albums. This tutorial goes into details of the shortcode API in WordPress and into some detail of creating advanced shortcodes to accomplish tasks such as

Send to Twitter (or consequently, send to Techmeme via Twitter)
Create an RSS feed link
Insert Adsense into a post
Insert an RSS reader into a post
Add shortcodes to sidebars

Please let us know if you have used any of these or know of/have created others that might be useful.

Shortcode Generator

Jeff Chandler — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:29:55 +0000

Julien of Webinventif has created a shortcode generator for WordPress. Shortcode is like BBcode in that it provides the ability to use shortcuts to execute a block of code, rather than having to write out the block of code time and time again. Julien has made use of the new API calls within WordPress and with his shortcode generator, makes it easy as 1,2,3 to create your own custom shortcode. Although everything has been written in French, this generator looks promising. If anyone could translate this generator into English, I think there would be many WordPresser’s who would be grateful.

Here is a screencast showcasing the generator in action.

Shortcode generator from WebInventif.fr on Vimeo

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Mastering WordPress Shortcodes

Shortcode Generator