Title: Question About Inserting Shortcodes
Last modified: July 9, 2018

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# Question About Inserting Shortcodes

 *  Resolved [anefarious1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anefarious1/)
 * (@anefarious1)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-inserting-shortcodes/)
 * Hello,
 * Do you know of any way to automatically insert shortcodes for hundreds of posts?
 * For example, say I have an H3 Title on 300+ WP posts… how would I avoid having
   to manually go in and place shortcodes? That would obviously take too much time
   and effort.
 * Another example would be the dropcap feature on the first letter of each post.
 * I know there are lots of ad placement plugins that can inject a shortcode in 
   specific places BUT since (as I understand it) these shortcodes require a closing
   tag… that’s a problem?
 * Do you have another way??? Thanks

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 *  [Bianca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bianca205/)
 * (@bianca205)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-inserting-shortcodes/#post-10485213)
 * Hi,
 * A possible solution could be (1)creating a [child theme](https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
   and (2)copy the page template single.php to it and (3)apply the changes according
   to [this manual](https://docs.getshortcodes.com/article/52-using-of-shortcodes-in-template-files).
 * As for the dropcap, that can be [done by css](https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/drop-caps/)
   but depends on how you want to implement this.
 *  Thread Starter [anefarious1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anefarious1/)
 * (@anefarious1)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-inserting-shortcodes/#post-10485801)
 * Wow great idea.
 * But are, for example, H3 title tags actually part of a typical single.php template?
   I thought those are only created manually in the post editor.
 *  [Bianca](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bianca205/)
 * (@bianca205)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-inserting-shortcodes/#post-10487262)
 * You are right. When you enter these via the content editor it’s dynamical text.
   
   Perhaps you can elaborate how you want to use the shortcode in combination with
   the h3 tags.
 * I’m thinking about exporting all posts to xml. Open the file, do a search and
   replace and import the posts xml after. But I am not entirely sure about this
   method…
 *  Thread Starter [anefarious1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anefarious1/)
 * (@anefarious1)
 * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-inserting-shortcodes/#post-10487561)
 * I was thinking about it some more. CSS would probably be better for just manipulating
   H tags in a variety of ways.
 * I don’t have specific ideas for this plugin, but I think someone will eventually
   design an excellent looking WP theme around it… using Bianca’s template idea.
 * I’d be interested in that!
 * For my situation, I can’t utilize the plugin (although I want to) because I have
   a ton of existing content. Too much work!

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