Title: need help with short code
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# need help with short code

 *  [matax](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matax/)
 * (@matax)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-short-code/)
 * Basically I want to know how to use a short code command to make a special style
   for quoted text, as in I can type something like…
 * [quoted]
    This is quoted text [/quoted]
 * and it would like change the background color of that section of text and do 
   some other styles to it as well
 * Can anyone help me understand how to do this?

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-short-code/#post-1561256)
 * In theory, put this in your functions.php:
 *     ```
       function quoted_shortcode( $atts, $content = null ) {
          return '<span class="quoted">' . $content . '</span>';
       }
       add_shortcode('quoted', 'quoted_shortcode');
       ```
   
 * Then make a CSS class for quoted 🙂
 * Read [http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API](http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API)
   for more help.

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## Tags

 * [quote](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/quote/)
 * [shortcode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shortcode/)
 * [style](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/style/)
 * [text](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/text/)

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 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-help-with-short-code/#post-1561256)
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