Title: support/compatibility for bbcode plugins using add_shortcode() Last modified: November 26, 2017 --- # support/compatibility for bbcode plugins using add_shortcode() * Resolved [pgn4web](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pgn4web/) * (@pgn4web) * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/support-compatibility-for-bbcode-plugins-using-add_shortcode/) * I developed a plugin for wordpress.org that defines a custom bbcode using the add_shortcode() API. So far so good up to wordpress.org 4.9 * I saw the announcements about gutneberg for wordpress.org 5 and I tried my plugin in conjunction with wordpress.org 4.9 and the gutemberg plugin: total fail, my plugin does not work anymore or it does not obviously show how to make it work with the new editor. * Questions: – will wordpress.org 5 guarantee backward compatibility for the add_shortcode() API ? – any published guidelines for plugin developers to take into account and prepare their plugins for wordpress.org 5 ? – any guidelines/reccomendations for bbcode plugin developers to switch from the add_shortcode() API to something else that will result in a gutenberg block? After all, my plugin takes the bbcode data from the user and creates an iframes showing graphic interactive content derived from that data (and no, it’s a custom developement very unlikely to be in the standard embeds of gutemberg) * Thanks for helping bbcode plugin developers preparing for the big change! Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * Plugin Author [aduth](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aduth/) * (@aduth) * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/support-compatibility-for-bbcode-plugins-using-add_shortcode/#post-9726014) * It’s expected that shortcodes should continue to work without issues in Gutenberg. A Shortcode block exists which will respect the syntax of any previously supported shortcode in the context of Gutenberg. * Many users will expect to be able to insert shortcodes into a paragraph block, and this should be supported as well, tracked at the following GitHub issue: * [https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/3062](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/3062) * With some in-progress work here: * [https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/3609](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/3609) [https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/3610](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/3610) * Can you check to see if your shortcode works with the Shortcode block? * To your other questions: * > any published guidelines for plugin developers to take into account and prepare > their plugins for wordpress.org 5 ? * Related to the first question, since it is the hope that Gutenberg is largely compatible with previous plugin behaviors, there should not be much that a plugin author needs to anticipate. Where breaking changes do occur will certainly be documented as those are introduced. * > any guidelines/reccomendations for bbcode plugin developers to switch from > the add_shortcode() API to something else that will result in a gutenberg block? * This does not yet exist, but I believe it should, as many will find themselves in a similar situation as yourself. While much of what had previously been implemented as shortcodes could serve well as blocks, there should be a clear path for upgrading. The idea of an editable block lends itself to different conventions from a shortcode, so this path is not always 1-to-1; and in fairness, a block introduces new editing capabilities that a plugin author should want to leverage to improve the user experience of modifying a block’s behavior. * This is covered by the following GitHub issue: * [https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/1894](https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/1894) * Thread Starter [pgn4web](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pgn4web/) * (@pgn4web) * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/support-compatibility-for-bbcode-plugins-using-add_shortcode/#post-9726102) * Thanks for the reply. * Looking forward to the developments and the new opportunities offered to plugin developers by the block’s behavior. * With respect to your first question, here is where I got confused because I could not get the gutenberg plugin to work on my test site with wordpress.org 4.9. However the error message I get seems to be completely unrelated to bbcodes and happens on my test environment even after a fresh install of wordpress.org 4.9 and gutenberg. Every time I try to publish an edit from gutenberg I get an “update failed” error with the browser console complaining of error “wordpress/wp-json/ wp/v2/posts/10 403 (Forbidden)” from the “load-scripts.php?c=1&…”. Until this is fixed on my test environment I can’t really assess the impact on my bbcode plugin. Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘support/compatibility for bbcode plugins using add_shortcode()’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/gutenberg/assets/icon-256x256.jpg?rev=1776042) * [Gutenberg](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gutenberg/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gutenberg/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gutenberg/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gutenberg/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gutenberg/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gutenberg/reviews/) * 2 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [pgn4web](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pgn4web/) * Last activity: [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/support-compatibility-for-bbcode-plugins-using-add_shortcode/#post-9726102) * Status: resolved