Title: Custom shortcode's
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Custom shortcode's

 *  [Perphide](https://wordpress.org/support/users/perphide/)
 * (@perphide)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-shortcodes/)
 * I’ve been using some custom shortcodes in my template. Thing is… I have to many
   and they are almost all identical. (over 40 times the same 4 lines of code with
   only 1 numerical change in the code)
 *     ```
       function t1_func( $atts ){
        return '<img class="alignnone" src="/Tekens%201.png" alt="" width="35" height="41" />';
       }
       add_shortcode( 't1', 't1_func' );
       ```
   
 * Above is one current shortcode example. I use this same piece of code 9 times.
   Going from t1 to t9.
 * I am now trying to make this code shorter and make it work for other attributes(
   b,t and k).
 * I experimented with the following code:
 *     ```
       function m_func( $atts ) {
       	extract( shortcode_atts( array('b','t','k','wi','dr',) , $atts ) );
   
       	if ($atts = b) {
       		return '<img class="alignnone" src="/Bamboe%20' . ($b) . '.png" alt="" width="35" height="41" />';
       	}
       	if ($atts = t) {
       		return '<img class="alignnone" src="/Tekens%20' . ($t) . '.png" alt="" width="35" height="41" />';
       	}
       	if ($atts = k) {
       		return '<img class="alignnone" src="/Kringen%20' . ($k) . '.png" alt="" width="35" height="41" />';
       	}
   
       }
       add_shortcode( 'm', 'm_func' );
       ```
   
 * But this does not work, can anyone help me on this subject?
 * P.S.
    I read that attribute parameters require a default… but in my case there
   are no defaults… the attribute should only be used when it is entered…

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 *  Thread Starter [Perphide](https://wordpress.org/support/users/perphide/)
 * (@perphide)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-shortcodes/#post-2496073)
 * It seemed this option above eventually worked, but it could not handle multiple
   uses of the same type (b/t/k). I now have a temporary fix to shorten my previous
   204 lines of almost identical code:
 *     ```
       function tiles_func( $attr = null, $content = null, $shortcode = null ){
       	if (!is_null( $content )) {
       	return '<img class="alignnone" src="'. get_bloginfo('template_directory') .'/images/mahjong%20tiles/' . $shortcode . '.png" alt="" width="35" height="41" />';
       	}
       }
       ```
   
 * And for the shortcuts this did the trick to reduce the massive amount of code:
 *     ```
       for( $i = 1; $i <= 9; $i++ ) {
       	add_shortcode( 'b'. $i .'', 'tiles_func' );
       	add_shortcode( 'k'. $i .'', 'tiles_func' );
       	add_shortcode( 't'. $i .'', 'tiles_func' );
       };
       ```
   
 * I hope someone else finds this useful, since I spent about 14 hours on this subject
   today and didn’t quite get the result I wanted.
 *  [jarrowwx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jarrowwx/)
 * (@jarrowwx)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-shortcodes/#post-2496105)
 * What isn’t the way you want it? What doesn’t work?
 *  Thread Starter [Perphide](https://wordpress.org/support/users/perphide/)
 * (@perphide)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-shortcodes/#post-2496107)
 * It works this way…
    I am just wondering if this is the correct (and only) way…
 * That is because I think it is weird to check for $content and then use $shortcode.
 *  Thread Starter [Perphide](https://wordpress.org/support/users/perphide/)
 * (@perphide)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-shortcodes/#post-2496111)
 * Also there are two thing I currently can’t get working:
    1. Use an attribute 
   called r and use it only when it is filled in by the user (I did find I can set
   the default value to null so it doesn’t do anything, but I did not find a way
   to check if the user did use the r attribute.
 * 2. This code makes shortcode like [b1] [b2] while at first I wanted this to be
   possible (especially the multiple uses of the same atribute:
    [m b=123 b=456 
   b=789]
 * Side note: In the code above I have used ATTR instead of ATTS, maybe that is 
   way a lot of testing late at night failed… however this is now fixed and $atts[
   0] still doesn’t work… so code above still my current actual code with the misspelling
   corrected.

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