Title: [Plugin: Shortcode Creator] Shortcode definitions unavailable in settings
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Shortcode Creator] Shortcode definitions unavailable in settings

 *  [EJMedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ejmedia/)
 * (@ejmedia)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-shortcode-creator-shortcode-definitions-unavailable-in-settings/)
 * First off, nice plugin. I understand this is a newly developed plugin and I don’t
   expect it to be perfect, but I noticed when returning to the Appearance > Shortcodes
   page, the text previously defined for each shortcode is unavailable. I can see
   the list of shortcodes I’ve defined and choose to edit them, but if it’s possible
   to display what each shortcodes was previously defined as, it would be extremely
   helpful.
    Thanks!
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shortcode-creator/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shortcode-creator/)

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 *  Thread Starter [EJMedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ejmedia/)
 * (@ejmedia)
 * [14 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-shortcode-creator-shortcode-definitions-unavailable-in-settings/#post-2565590)
 * I just realized why text defined for each of my shortcode wasn’t showing up. 
   It’s because I was defining a “<div style=’XXX’>” and “</div>” and obviously,
   the text field isn’t displaying HTML tags. If there’s a way to correct this, 
   it sure would be helpful. Thanks again.
 *  [phnetwork](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phnetwork/)
 * (@phnetwork)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-shortcode-creator-shortcode-definitions-unavailable-in-settings/#post-2565848)
 * I totally agree with this … hopefully further instruction can be given on how
   to ‘escape out’ the ” stuff so that the html we want included in the output works
   out…
 *  [phnetwork](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phnetwork/)
 * (@phnetwork)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-shortcode-creator-shortcode-definitions-unavailable-in-settings/#post-2565849)
 * welll… duuur… ok i got this working….
 * here’s what i didnt in the html code to get it to work:
 * `<sup><a href=\"#aff\" title=\"Affiliate Link and will open a new window or tab
   to an external site\">aff</a></sup>`
 * as you can see I placed “\” before the quotes to escape them out so that the 
   database doesn’t regard them as a delimited marker
 * this way it linked to an anchor tag later on in the page automatically
 * I created the anchor tag linking in a widget so I can use this on every page 
   in my site.
 * hope this was helpful
 * if not i’ll try to clarify better 🙂
 * Edited:
 * Further note: once you save it, the \ ‘s will disappear… so remember when editing
   to add them back in before saving otherwise it will disappear again… this would
   be a pain in the butt if you have tons of shortcodes to manage i would think 
   tho…
 *  [phnetwork](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phnetwork/)
 * (@phnetwork)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-shortcode-creator-shortcode-definitions-unavailable-in-settings/#post-2565850)
 * ok after playing adding another shortcode with html and stuff in it … it became
   a hassle…
 * even attempted to add them straight into the database and that just made everything
   disappear
 * so this plugin is great so long as you dont want to get tricky with it… i.e. 
   using just plain text
 * but for my purposes it is not quite there yet

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