Before we dive too far into the technical aspects of creating shortcodes in plugins, I want to take a moment to discuss some of the good ways that shortcodes can be used, and some of the scenarios where shortcodes should probably be avoided.
Shortcodes are one of the most ubiquitous features used throughout thousands upon thousands of plugins. If a plugin does anything more than very basic or specific tasks, it is likely that it uses one or more shortcodes as a means for the user to apply the functionality of the plugin to their site. Gallery plugins…
This is a really handy trick that I just learned today. Whenever we can, it is always best to only load styles and scripts for our plugins when they are needed. This tutorial will show you how to load stylesheets and scripts only when a post contains the short code that the styles / scripts…
Short Codes are great, except that they are not always very user friendly, especially for those users that are not very familiar with programming, because, let’s face, short codes look like code.
Easily insert nicely styled message boxes and download buttons into your posts with WP shortcodes. This plugin lets you very easily insert utility boxes and buttons, which can be used for any number of things, such as drawing your visitors to important information. For example, download links.
The Shortcodes Pro plugin is written by Matt Varone and is now available for free from Matt’s website and the WordPress Plugin repository.
