Title: Making plugin easier for future changes.
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Making plugin easier for future changes.

 *  Resolved [eddiedoidao](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eddiedoidao/)
 * (@eddiedoidao)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-plugin-easier-for-future-changes/)
 * Hi Meitar!
 * First of all I would like just to say thank you for this kind of plugin. It’s
   being awesome on my website.
 * So let me explain:
 * My client has a lot of customers and I’m creating a Chart for every of her customers
   so I will create different pages for them.
 * However, if I would like to change the graph appearance in the future, or change
   some charge column, I would need to change the code on every page.
 * So I was thinking: is it possible to make something like [chart]googlecharturl.
   com[/chart] where the [/chart] will have all the code after the googlechart url.
 * For example [/chart] = ” chart=”Line” query=”select A, B, C, D” chart_legend=”
   bottom” chart_height=”400″ chart_point_size=”10″ use_cache=”no”]
 * I’m so sorry if I’m not clear, but if you could just give me a heads up. I’ll
   go for it, just need to clarify a little.
 * Thanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/inline-google-spreadsheet-viewer/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/inline-google-spreadsheet-viewer/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Meitar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meitar/)
 * (@meitar)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-plugin-easier-for-future-changes/#post-7697183)
 * I understand what you’re suggesting and agree it is a good idea, a nice feature
   to have. [I’ve added it to the project’s issue tracker](https://github.com/meitar/inline-gdocs-viewer/issues/12).
   However, I don’t know when or even if I’ll ever get around to doing this myself,
   so if you would like to submit a patch (or get someone else to develop a patch
   and send it to me), that would speed up the implementation of such a feature 
   considerably.
 *  Thread Starter [eddiedoidao](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eddiedoidao/)
 * (@eddiedoidao)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-plugin-easier-for-future-changes/#post-7697215)
 * Hi Meitar!
    That’s awesome, it could be just the start of an awesome tool for
   the plugin!
 * I will definitely start looking into it!
 * Meanwhile I’m trying to get a easier solution (not that case) but trying to make
   easier to my client using the plugin.
 * I installed custom forms and added a field (Chart Link) where she just paste 
   the links without worrying editing the code. However, it looks like shortcodes
   inside shortcodes don’t work…
 * Here’s the explanation:
 * [gdoc key=”[acf field=”chart”]” class=”no-datatables” use_cache=”no”]
 * Where’s the [acf field=”chart”] is the custom form where she places the url.
 * Have you haver found a solution to make what I’m trying to do? or it is the same
   fix as you answered before?
 * Thank you!
 *  Plugin Author [Meitar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meitar/)
 * (@meitar)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-plugin-easier-for-future-changes/#post-7697237)
 * WordPress core doesn’t support nested shortcodes. You _might_ have some luck 
   with the [Nested Shortcodes plugin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/nested-shortcodes/),
   but I have never used it and cannot vouch for its compatibility.
 * You can use something like [WP-CLI to do a global find-and-replace](http://wp-cli.org/commands/search-replace/),
   but of course this is not “easy to use” for less technical people.
 * The right solution to making the plugin easier to use for less technical people
   is to improve its interface. This has been a long standing goal but, as this 
   is a volunteer project and I am the only person working on it, and I have a lot
   of volunteer projects that I am working on, and I do not get paid for any of 
   them, I have not implemented a “better interface.” As I said before, you’re more
   than welcome to do that work and send it to me and I will happily integrate it
   into the plugin and credit you for your work.

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 * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/inline-google-spreadsheet-viewer.
   svg)
 * [Inline Google Spreadsheet Viewer](https://wordpress.org/plugins/inline-google-spreadsheet-viewer/)
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 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [Meitar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/meitar/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/making-plugin-easier-for-future-changes/#post-7697237)
 * Status: resolved