Title: Shorter shortcode?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Shorter shortcode?

 *  Resolved [Mor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/superbrightfuturegmailcom/)
 * (@superbrightfuturegmailcom)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shorter-shortcode/)
 * Is there a way of making wp shortcode even shorter?
    What I want to do is `[i
   =134]`
 * instead of say
    `[i i=134]`
 * Thanks

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 *  [Brandon Kraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kraftbj/)
 * (@kraftbj)
 * Code Wrangler
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shorter-shortcode/#post-3722009)
 * Sorry for having to kick you over to this forum. It’s a common occurrence!
 * Someone smarter than I may have something I don’t know, but as far as I know,
   that isn’t possible.
 * The shortcode API looks for a shortcode first, and then for the attribute/value
   pair. Without a change to core, just can’t do it, afaik.
 *  Thread Starter [Mor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/superbrightfuturegmailcom/)
 * (@superbrightfuturegmailcom)
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shorter-shortcode/#post-3722073)
 * Could you not… make a plug-in (or function?) that replaces shortcode where the
   shortcode is immediately followed by an equal sign? So you’d type `[i=134]` but
   the plugin would find it and automatically turn it into `[i i=134]` before the
   shortcode API got to it?
 *  [Brandon Kraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kraftbj/)
 * (@kraftbj)
 * Code Wrangler
 * [13 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shorter-shortcode/#post-3722185)
 * I suppose you could; I’m not familiar with which filter/hook you would tie into
   to process $content before the shortcode process starts. I don’t know if there
   is a way to modify the shortcode process itself, short of editing core.
 * Depending on end goal, that may not be worth the resources to, in effect, double
   the work of the shortcode process.
 *  Thread Starter [Mor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/superbrightfuturegmailcom/)
 * (@superbrightfuturegmailcom)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shorter-shortcode/#post-3722282)
 * 2 months later and I found out how to do it, in the codex, of all places.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API](http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API)
 * “Other features in brief
    … For backwards compatibility with older ad-hoc shortcodes,
   attribute names may be omitted. If an attribute has no name it will be given 
   a positional numeric key in the $atts array. For example, [myshortcode 123] will
   produce $atts = array( 0 => 123 ). Positional attributes may be mixed with named
   ones, and quotes may be used if the values contain spaces or other significant
   characters.”

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