By Haris Bacic March 24th, 2016 When it comes to a platform to run your website on, WordPress is a pretty common one. As everyone probably already knows, WordPress is only limited by the plugins available or the development skills you have. In other words, you can literally extend it in any way you want. While … Continue reading Extending WordPress: 10 Super Powerful WordPress Plugins
by Mike Brown March 17, 2016 Follow @BuddhaBroIncMarch 17, 2016 Once you’ve installed WordPress and gotten started on building and maintaining your blog, it’s time to start thinking about how you can make your blog better. While there are many approaches to doing this, from creating more content to improving your blog’s overall design, one … Continue reading What Are the Best SEO Plugins For WordPress?
by Arielle Hurst February 28, 2016 Follow @purechatFebruary 28, 2016 If your small business uses WordPress (as more than 60% of websites do!), you probably already have a shortlist of go-to plugins that are essential. Add ons like Yoast SEO, Akismet for comments, and Google Analytics Dashboard are all a must for businesses who want … Continue reading 9 WordPress Plugins Your Small Business Needs In 2016
by Susan Gilbert February 22, 2016 Follow @SusanGilbertFebruary 22, 2016 Give Your WordPress Website a Boost with These Plugins Monday Tips is a short list of the best finds across the internet to start your week off right. Today I have some WordPress plugins to help you improve your productivity and visibility. Here’s four links … Continue reading 4 WordPress Plugins to Improve Your Website
by Luana Spinetti February 15, 2016 Follow @LuanaTFFebruary 15, 2016 There are WordPress plugins for pretty much every purpose out there, but when it comes to Marketing and SEO, you can count the good ones on the fingers of one hand (maybe two, if your search goes deep enough). In my 12 years old of … Continue reading 6 WordPress Plugins for Marketing and SEO
by Goutham Bhadri February 6, 2016 Follow @mktgsamuraiFebruary 6, 2016 An email list is gold these days. Getting the permission slip to go into someone’s email inbox is one of the best ways to stay top-of-mind to a highly targeted audience. Yet driving email subscriber signups isn’t as easy as it should be. People hold … Continue reading 10 Plugins to Drive Email Subscribers
On March 29, 2008, WordPress 2.5 was released. Of the many changes and improvements in the new version, perhaps the support of so-called shortcodes was one of the most interesting and useful features. Shortcodes were introduced to create macros for use in posts and pages to add bits of predefined functionality into their content. For example, the shortcode
The introduction of WordPress shortcodes also led plugin developers to create special kinds of content such as forms and content generators that users can add to pages by using the corresponding shortcode into the page text.
So shortcodes are obviously pretty sweet. They are WordPress-specific codes that let you do particularly skillful things with very little effort such as embedding a slideshow presentation or a Twitter timeline that would normally require lots of complicated code. Some popular available shortcodes in WordPress include:
For example,
With audio shortcodes, you can insert things like audio from SoundCloud or a playlist for uploaded audio files. For example,
With shortcodes for image and documents, you can add a number of predefined functionalities to your pages and posts such as
And finally, miscellaneous shortcodes such as
…let you do things like add a blog archive index, contact form, polls and more.
Clearly, WordPress shortcodes can be used to access a number of functionalities for your content from something as simple as changing the color of some text to adding an image gallery that slides across a page. The question is: Where do you get the shortcodes that will let you quickly insert elements you regularly use like FAQs and product catalogues?
Well, for a start, WordPress offers some built-in shortcodes like , , ,
The solution?
Look at bundled shortcode plugins!
With 50+ amazing shortcodes, Shortcodes Ultimate is a popular WordPress plugin that you can use to create tabs, buttons, boxes, responsive videos and much more. It also features a shortcode generator that you can use to create your own custom shortcodes while the functionality of the plugin itself can be greatly extended with premium add-ons.
If you want to take your website to the next level and hugely improve it to look more professional, WordPress Shortcodes is an amazing set of great shortcodes with almost 150,000 downloads in the WordPress Plugin Repository. The plugin comes bundled with the full set of elements including SEO-friendly tabs, sections, buttons, lists, layouts and more.
A WordPress plugin that lets you create a custom shortcode and store HTML, Javascript and other snippets in it, Shortcoder is particularly handy when adding ads to your site and embedding media such as videos on posts and pages. The plugin has 10,000+ active installs.
With shortcodes for everything from tabs, lists and progress bars to buttons, icons and image effects, Easy Bootstrap Shortcode lets you add style to your website. In particular, the plugin is desirable for its 500+ Font-Awesome & Glyphicons icon fonts. It is also the simplest bootstrap style plugin ever.
Easy to use with shortcodes from a dropdown menu added to the WordPress content editor, Vision is a premium shortcode plugin, which works seamlessly with every theme. It includes over 100 shortcodes from accordions and tabs to animated features list, buttons, image icons, pricing boxes, social icons and pull quotes. Other standout features of the plugin include great support, documentation and an online helpdesk.
Styles With Shortcodes is a premium WordPress plugin that features a wide range of awesome built-in shortcodes to expand the functionality of your site including different HTML and JS elements. In particular, the plugin is useful to add some custom styling to the different elements of your WordPress site without any knowledge of coding. Notable shortcodes include buttons for social media, pullquotes, colored boxes and maps.
Developed to help users create custom shortcodes from inside WordPress, Shortcodes Pro allows quick and easy creation of WordPress shortcodes and TinyMCE rich editor buttons. The plugin is free and simple to use and has over 4000 active installs.
A simple shortcode generator that you can use with any theme, ZillaShortcodes is a useful plugin to add extra functionalities to your website. It features a fine array of gorgeous shortcodes including columns, buttons, toggles and tabs with the click of a button. Simply choose the functionality you wish to include, configure the options and insert.
Next up, with tons of shortcodes to choose from, Intense WordPress Site Builder allows you to build modern layouts and create beautiful pages like the pros with little effort. Notable shortcodes include Animated, Gallery, Icon, Content Box and Content Section. For more information on each shortcode and their functionality, follow this link.
And finally, Supreme Shortcodes is a WordPress plugin that includes many useful and beautiful shortcodes that make your content creation easier. Notable examples include contact forms, tabs, toggles, Google maps, lists, styled tables and call-to-action buttons. In fact, the plugin adds over 100 extra functionalities to your website.
10 Crazy Good Shortcode Collection Plugins For WordPress
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By Haris Bacic October 16th, 2015 In this article, we’ll go over the 5 best WordPress audience plugins that will help you better understand your website users, get information from them, and keep your website more secure. Google Analytics by Yoast Most website owners probably already use Google Analytics (GA). It is the leader … Continue reading 5 Best WordPress Audience Understanding Plugins
Vinny AlvesOctober 5, 2015 So you’ve finally decided what the focus of your website should be and are ready to set up your WordPress install. You now need to select your theme and a series of plugins to build upon the core functionality you get from WordPress out of the box. With thousands of options … Continue reading How to Identify Good WordPress Plugins in 4 Easy Steps
By Tricia Mool September 29th, 2015 When I built my first WordPress website, and I am using the word “built” liberally, I was encouraged by how many plugins could support the goals I had and what I wanted to do. But these days, the market offers an ever increasing number of plugins–and that’s particularly true … Continue reading Website Analytics: Plugins That Provide Post Stats
