Title: Adding arguments to shortcode?
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Adding arguments to shortcode?

 *  [erweinstein7](https://wordpress.org/support/users/erweinstein7/)
 * (@erweinstein7)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-arguments-to-shortcode/)
 * Basically, I’m looking to have a random picture generated on the left side of
   the page and a random quotation generated on the right (I’m using Divi theme).
   The content randomizer allows me to assign categories to everything – e.g. images
   vs text.
 * [elm_random] is the code that I use to display items from the randomizer.
 * And the documentation reads: Display randomizer posts. Arguments: Type – text/
   image/video, Category – all or a specific category. Arguments are not required.
   Default type – text, category – all.
 * Any idea how to use these category arguments so I can do what I explain above?
 * Thanks!

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 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-arguments-to-shortcode/#post-7346113)
 * Generally, arguments for shortcodes would look like this:
 * `[elm_random type="video" category="selected_category"]`
 * As you’re using a [commercial theme](https://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Commercial_Products),
   you’ll need to contact the author/vendor for any more support than that as we
   don’t have access to the code used to create that shortcode, so we can’t see 
   how it all works.

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