Shortcoder — Create Shortcodes for Anything

Changelog

6.5.2

  • Fix: Sanitize custom field value before being inserted into post.

6.5.1

  • Fix: Added null checks to fix warning in some scenarios.

6.5

  • Fix: Support for WordPress 6.8.

6.4

  • New: Option to set shortcode display name next to shortcode name.
  • New: Option to execute WordPress block HTML in shortcode content.
  • Fix: Shortcoder roles are registered when plugin is activated.

6.3.2

  • Fix: Verify permissions while closing Shortcoder changelog.

6.3.1

  • Fix: Admin ajax vulnerability with nonce.

6.3

  • New: Set default value for the custom field parameters.
  • New: Custom parameter default value is shown in the insert shortcode popup.
  • Fix: Restrict access to admin-ajax calls.
  • Fix: Some admin texts were missing translation.
  • Fix: Removed the note in the insert popup for fully closed shortcode.
  • Fix: Debug comment line now has the name of the shortcode.

6.2

  • New: Option to show shortcode content in “All shortcodes” page.
  • Fix: Some texts were not translated.
  • Fix: Error in WP Bakery page builder while picking images.

6.1

  • New: Enhancements to shortcode edit screen meta boxes.
  • Fix: HTML is escaped in the editor sometimes.
  • Fix: Support for WordPress 6.1

6.0

  • New: PRO version is introduced.
  • New: Prevent same shortcode nested loop.
  • New: New actions and filters introduced.
  • Fix: Post excerpt shortcode parameter now prints full post excerpt.
  • Fix: Enhancements to input and output data sanitization.

5.8

  • New: Option to set description for the shortcode.
  • New: New actions and filters introduced.
  • Fix: Minor admin UI enhancements.

5.7

  • New: Reordered shortcode column in the “All shortcodes” page.
  • New: Option to copy shortcode directly from “All shortcodes” page.
  • New: Filter sc_mod_content to modify shortcode content before execution.
  • Fix: Shortcode won’t save if the email field in the feedback form has invalid value.
  • Fix: Custom parameter with hyphen was not highlighted in code editor.
  • Fix: Minor admin UI enhancements.

5.6

  • New: Shortcodes available to copy/insert are now closed by default.
  • Fix: Custom parameter value 0 is not displayed.
  • Fix: Support for WordPress 5.8

5.5

  • New: General settings page to configure default editor and shortcode content.
  • New: Block to insert shortcode rewritten from scratch.
  • New: Toolbar button to insert shortcodes inline.
  • New: Shortcodes are now closed by default when inserted from editor.
  • Fix: Custom fields parsing issue when they are placed next to each other.
  • Fix: Enclosed content in block input now retains multi-line.
  • Fix: Minor refinements to UI.

5.4

  • New: Code editor is now loaded locally and not from cloudflare.
  • New: Code editor now shows hints and highlights any syntax error.
  • New: Hyphens can now be used in shortcode custom parameters.
  • Fix: Handle scenario where shortcode attribute is received as a string sometimes.
  • Fix: Notice where wp_localize_script was called incorrectly.
  • Fix: Handle scenario where HTML is passed as shortcode parameter.
  • New: WordPress requirement changed from 4.4 to 4.9

5.3.4

  • New: Tested with WordPress 5.6
  • Fix: Handle warning with trim while fetching page metadata at some pages.

5.3.3

  • New: Support for post slug as the new shortcode parameter under WordPress information.
  • New: Codemirror has been updated to latest version.
  • Fix: Handle code editor loading issue when there is any collision.
  • Fix: Handle input fields which have empty id attribute.
  • Fix: Handle issue of $post object being undefined at some cases.
  • Fix: Renamed usages of __class__ to __CLASS__

5.3.2

  • New: In code editor, shortcodes will be highlighted and code editor font size is slightly bigger.

5.3.1

  • New: Code editor is now made the default editor.
  • Fix: Minor changes to admin UI.

5.3

  • New: Added support for underscores in custom parameters.
  • New: Getting ready for internationalization of the plugin.
  • Fix: Insert shortcode popup shows duplicate available parameters in case of same parameter with different case.

5.2.1

  • Fix: Custom parameters being not replaced in some scenarios.
  • Fix: Minor enhancement to insert custom parameter form.

5.2

  • New: Default values can now be provided to custom parameters.
  • Fix: Script tags, custom field placeholder and backslash being stripped after saving the shortcode sometimes.
  • Fix: Rel attribute being modified for links.
  • New: Added “Manage shortcodes” link to plugin list page for easy access after activation.

5.1

  • New: Import/Export link added to the shortcoder list page.
  • Fix: empty() was throwing error at some places for users using PHP 5.5 below as function return value was passed to it.
  • Fix: Shortcoder QTTags button was loading in frontends.
  • Fix: “Insert shortcode” popup was hidden behind in theme customizer page.
  • Fix: array_key_exists array but bool given warning.
  • Fix: Hide comments metabox in shortcode edit page as it was shown in certain conditions.

5.0.4

  • Fix: script and style tags stripped after 4.x upgrade. New migration will run in this version and shortcode content will now be fixed.

5.0.3

  • Fix: Shortcode content is not escaped when code editor is used. This is requirement because post_content behaves strangely when user has rich editing enabled.

5.0.2

  • Fix: Shortcodes inside shortcode content not getting executed.
  • Fix: Disable Gutenberg block for older not supported WordPress versions.

5.0.1

  • Fix: Code editor escaping HTML characters.
  • Fix: get_current_screen() undefined.
  • Fix: Code editor breaks if there is any other plugin which loads codemirror.
  • Fix: tools.php is not found.

5.0

  • New: Brand new version. Plugin rewritten from scratch.
  • New: Shortcoder block for the block editor.

4.4

  • New: Insert shortcode automatically adds “closing tag” if the shortcode has enclosed content parameter.
  • Fix: Codemirror has been updated to latest version.

4.3

  • New: Edit shortcode name after creating.
  • New: Post modified date parameter added.
  • Fix: Date parameters now display in site language.

4.2

  • Fix: Some plugins fail to fire onload JS event since it was overwritten by shortcoder.
  • Fix: Javascript in insert shortcode popup not working in IE 11.
  • Fix: Missing parenthesis while calling is_year.
  • Fix: Widgets page not loading insert shortcode popup.
  • Fix: Removed settings emoji icon from plugin actions list.
  • Fix: Load latest version 5.42.0 of codemirror.
  • Fix: Updated minimum required WordPress version.

4.1.9

  • Fix: Minor UI refinements for better experience.
  • Fix: Import error where some exported JSON files have 0 as EOF.

4.1.8

  • New: Insert custom fields in shortcode content.
  • Fix: Removed comments in shortcode output

4.1.7

  • New: Categorize, search and filter shortcodes using “tags”.
  • New: Last used shortcode editor will be saved along with shortcode.
  • New: Enclosed shortcode content can now be used as shortcode parameter.
  • New: Active line highlight has been enabled for code editor.
  • Fix: Codemirror has been updated to latest version.
  • Fix: Minor admin interface enhancements.

4.1.6

  • New: Date variables can noe be added into shortcode content.
  • Fix: Error “trying to get property of non-object” is handled.

4.1.5

  • New: Bloginfo variables can now be added into shortcode content.

4.1.4

  • New: Codemirror powered syntax highlighted shortcode content code editor (beta).

4.1.3

  • Fix: Shortcode names with not-allowed characters cannot be edited/deleted.
  • New: Shortcode imports made can now be fresh or overwritten.
  • New: Only users with manage_options capability will see “edit shortcode” option in insert window.
  • Fix: Import failure with UTF-8 characters.
  • Fix: Case sensitive search in admin pages.
  • Fix: Minor admin interface changes.

4.1.2

  • New: Search box for shortcodes in admin page.

4.1.1

  • Fix: HTTP 500 error because of syntax error in import module.

4.1

  • New: Import/export feature for shortcodes.
  • Fix: Visual editor is now disabled by default.
  • Fix: Added instructions in admin page.

4.0.3

  • New: Added feature to sort created shortcodes list.
  • Fix: HTML errors in admin page

4.0.2

  • Fix: Sometimes get_current_screen() was called early in some setups.

4.0.1

  • Fix: Servers with PHP version < 5.5 were facing HTTP 500 error because of misuse of PHP language construct in code.

4.0

  • New: Plugin rewritten from scratch.
  • New: Brand new administration page
  • New: Shortcode visibility settings, show/hide in desktop/mobile devices
  • New: Insert WordPress information into shortcode content.
  • Fix: Insert shortcode window is not loading.
  • Fix: Unable to delete the shortcodes

(Older change logs are removed from this list)

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Author
vaakash
Version:
6.5.2
Last Updated
March 1, 2026
Active Installs
100000
Requires
WordPress 4.9.0
Tested Up To
WordPress 6.9.1
Requires PHP
5.3

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