Title: WP Shortcodes API
Author: smccafferty
Published: <strong>February 1, 2012</strong>
Last modified: October 18, 2012

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# WP Shortcodes API

 By [smccafferty](https://profiles.wordpress.org/smccafferty/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wordpress-shortcodes-api.0.8.zip)

 * [Details](https://wol.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-shortcodes-api/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wol.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-shortcodes-api/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wol.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-shortcodes-api/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wol.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-shortcodes-api/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wordpress-shortcodes-api/)

## Description

The plugin take all of the data registered and created a multi-dimensional
 array
in an option called ‘_shortcodes’. Existing shortcodes that WP is away of are also
stored here with just their name and callback.

A few static methods for checking on shortcode info are provided.
 GetShortcodeAtts(
$shortcode_name) ShortcodeInPost($shortcode_name, $post_id)

Creating a new media button in the editor is easy with the `add_media_button()`

method. Just pass your shortcode name, attributes, a page title, introductory text,
and an icon image url.

## Installation

 1. Upload `wp-shortcodes-api.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. example implementation:
 4.     ```
        if (class_exists('WP_Shortcodes_API')) {
                WP_Shortcodes_API::GetInstance()->
                    add_shortcode($shortcode_name, $callback)->
                    add_att($att_name)->
                    add_att($att_name2)->
                    add_media_button(array(
                        'shortcode' => $shortcode_name,
                        'title' => $thickbox_title,
                        'icon_url' => $button_icon_url,
                        'intro' => $introduction_to_form,
                        'input_atts' => WP_Shortcodes_API::GetShortcodeAtts($shortcode_name)
                    ));
            } else {
                // fallback if the plugin is unavailable.
                add_shortcode($shorcode_name, $callback);
            }
        ```
    

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“WP Shortcodes API” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ smccafferty ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/smccafferty/)
 *   [ markparolisi ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/markparolisi/)
 *   [ voceplatforms ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/voceplatforms/)

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### Interested in development?

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## Changelog

#### 0.1

Initial release.

## Meta

 *  Version **0.8**
 *  Last updated **13 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.4.2**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-shortcodes-api/)
 * Tag
 * [shortcode](https://wol.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/shortcode/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wol.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-shortcodes-api/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ smccafferty ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/smccafferty/)
 *   [ markparolisi ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/markparolisi/)
 *   [ voceplatforms ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/voceplatforms/)

## Support

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