Title: Custom post-content shortcodes
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Custom post-content shortcodes

 *  [Raam Dev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raamdev/)
 * (@raamdev)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-content-shortcodes/)
 * The [theme guidelines plugin territory](http://make.wordpress.org/themes/guidelines/guidelines-plugin-territory/)
   says that themes must not include “Custom post-content shortcodes”. Would a shortcode
   that generates a list of recent posts for a given category (intended to be used
   when creating an archive page) qualify as a custom post-content shortcode or 
   would that be acceptable to include in a theme?

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 *  Thread Starter [Raam Dev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raamdev/)
 * (@raamdev)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-post-content-shortcodes/#post-4526435)
 * I’m not sure what a “custom post-content shortcode” would be. I wanted to include
   a Recent Posts shortcode in my theme because I know many people create Archive
   pages and having a Recent Posts shortcode would come in handy.
 * Is that rule intended to keep out shortcodes for things like YouTube videos, 
   social services shortcodes, etc? Would a shortcode that simply uses WordPress
   post content be OK?

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