Title: Code for inserting shortcodes
Last modified: March 24, 2021

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# Code for inserting shortcodes

 *  Resolved [Roman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vladroman/)
 * (@vladroman)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-for-inserting-shortcodes/)
 * Hi, vaakash!
 * I have a lot of custom shortcodes, added with function.php. Managing them becomes
   hard, so I looking for good plugin for that.
 * Looks like, your plugin is great solution for adding custom shortcodes. Unfortunately,
   as I can see in docs, for inserting shortcodes you use code [sc name=”shortcode_name”].
   All my custom shortcodes inserted like [shortcode_name].
 * Is there any variant for using your plugin for my shortcodes?

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 *  Plugin Author [vaakash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vaakash/)
 * (@vaakash)
 * [5 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-for-inserting-shortcodes/#post-14235727)
 * Hi [@vladroman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vladroman/),
 * Thanks for considering Shortcoder plugin.
 * As of now with shortcoder plugin you can create shortcodes only with `[sc]` tag.
   Custom tags are not supported.
 * There are multiple options I can think of,
 * – Move to shortcoder and use any plugin to search and replace posts with `[sc
   name=""]`
 * – Leave existing shortcodes as is and use shortcoder for upcoming new usages.
 * – Create shortcodes for existing HTML in shortcoder and use `return do_shortcode('[
   sc name=""]');` inside your existing PHP shortcode functions. By this way you
   can control the content from the admin yet still using the old shortcode name.
 * Thanks,
    Aakash
 *  Thread Starter [Roman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vladroman/)
 * (@vladroman)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-for-inserting-shortcodes/#post-14252620)
 * Thank you for suggestions, vaakash.
 * I have a several sites with thousands articles. And I’m not ready to make global
   replacement. It is a bit dangerous because testing, that everything were changed
   correctly, would be very problematic.
 * 2nd variant doesn’t solve main problem. For working with old shortcodes still
   need person with access to editing php, so content-managers cann’t do this themself.
   And in case I double shortcodes, managing them becomes double harder. 🙂
 * But 3rd variant looks like a solution. Not as nice, as ability to use custom 
   names like [my_shortcode_name]. But it solves all problems. So, yes, it is a 
   solution. Thank you for idea, probably, I’ll try this.
 * Anyway, I hope, you will think about my situation and will find usefull to add
   in future versions of your great plugin support for shortcodes names like [my_shortcode_name](
   as [here](https://wordpress.org/plugins/post-snippets/)). So your users could
   make a choice, which names to use. I can call a lot of situation, when this will
   be very usefull, not just my rare with dozens of custom shortcodes. For example,
   user wants to change theme, but his old theme has in-build shortcodes, which 
   he used a lot. Or some untypical places for shortcodes, where shortcodes with
   parameters works bad, and is better to use just names. Users ready for a lot 
   for getting solution in this situations, and if you give this solution, they 
   will be happy. 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [vaakash](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vaakash/)
 * (@vaakash)
 * [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-for-inserting-shortcodes/#post-14617161)
 * Hi [@vladroman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vladroman/),
 * Sure. The point of shortcoder is to create quick shortcodes for frequently used
   code snippets. Shortcoder was designed to have `[sc]` so as to keep it uniform
   and not mix it with others shortcodes. You could use post-snippets plugin too
   since you already have individual shortcodes a custom name. Cheers !
 * Thanks,
    Aakash

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 * Last activity: [4 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/code-for-inserting-shortcodes/#post-14617161)
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