Title: Creating shortcode for text slug Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Creating shortcode for text slug * Resolved [chappie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chappie/) * (@chappie) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-shortcode-for-text-slug/) * I would like the same slug of text (a 5-line list which will occasionally need to be updated) to appear at the end of the text on every static page except the home page (ie not on post pages). * I don’t think I can use a widget since these have to be placed in a fixed location on the page and the position of my text slug will vary depending on how long the main content is on each page. * So is a shortcode my best bet? I couldn’t find a snippet which matches my need; and when I did a Google search of this forum for “shortcode” only 3 matches were found, none of them relevant. * If so, I would prefer to try coding this myself rather than install another plugin to do just one task. I’ve read the WP shortcode Codex and other references but being php-illiterate, I couldn’t understand them. * Can anyone please help? TIA. Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * [rdellconsulting](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdellconsulting/) * (@rdellconsulting) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-shortcode-for-text-slug/#post-4853809) * I’m sure we can produce a php solution. But if you want to stick with your php illiteracy, then a plugin is the most likely way to go. * One plugin I use which I find very powerful is [Tablepress](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tablepress/). You’ll be able to maintain your list in it, and by using TablePress Extension: Single Cell Content Shortcode, you’ll add a shortcode to Pages you want, and any changes to the 5-lines need to be made once in the Table without changing any code in the relevant Pages. * Thread Starter [chappie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chappie/) * (@chappie) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-shortcode-for-text-slug/#post-4853837) * Thanks Dave- I’ll see if I can make further progress without installing another plugin. * I can always manually add a text slug to the bottom of every page but there are 30+ pages so any updates or amends will be non-trivial… * [Rocco Aliberti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d4z_c0nf/) * (@d4z_c0nf) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-shortcode-for-text-slug/#post-4853854) * You can always use customzir “__after_content” action hook (or wordpress filter“ the_content”, if you want that text inside the content), but I don’t know if I really got your goal 😀 * Thread Starter [chappie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chappie/) * (@chappie) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-shortcode-for-text-slug/#post-4853857) * d4z_c0nf – if I were to use a hook, where would I put the text slug – in a widget? It needs to be reasonably accessible for future editing by someone who knows even less than me…but I think she will be able to handle a widget. * What I’m trying to achieve is a slug of text which, manually created, would simply be the last div on every page – ie its position on the page would be determined by the position/length of the previous div. * [Rocco Aliberti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d4z_c0nf/) * (@d4z_c0nf) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-shortcode-for-text-slug/#post-4853858) * Let’s say you create a widget area ([like “after the headear” on themesandco snippets](http://www.themesandco.com/snippet/add-widget-area-header/)), and you put there a text widget. Then you can easily display it with the same code using `__after_content` instead of `__after_header` and with a check if is a page or a post ([http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_singular](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_singular)). * Thread Starter [chappie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chappie/) * (@chappie) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-shortcode-for-text-slug/#post-4853864) * Thank you d4z_c0nf – I’ll play around with that. * Thinking further about this, I might instead want to put a menu in this `__after_content` widget – just horizontal wrapping lines of around 30 `href` titles. I’m assuming I’ll be OK so far…? * But the problem I can foresee is that I would want to deactivate the href for the link the reader is on – which would mean 30 different tweaks, one for each page. If I can’t automate that somehow, I might as well do the job manually I suppose… * [Rocco Aliberti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/d4z_c0nf/) * (@d4z_c0nf) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-shortcode-for-text-slug/#post-4853870) * Well when you use a wordpress menu, you can see that the class of the item related to the current page changes, “current-menu-item”, “current-menu-ancestor” (if is an anchestor of the page), and so on. So you can hide it with css,, * Thread Starter [chappie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chappie/) * (@chappie) * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/creating-shortcode-for-text-slug/#post-4853874) * Hmmmmm…I’m liking this more and more. 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