what is "shortcode" and How to Create a Shortcode in WordPress ?

[Rachel S]

Hello Everyone
I'm eager to learn how one can create these shortcodes effectively within the WordPress ecosystem. Any help highly appreciate.

[Ryaan J.]

What is Shortcode?

WordPress shortcodes behave as shortcuts that make it simple to embed components into a post or page quickly. These typically consist of one line of code enclosed in square brackets, like [exampleofshortcode].

Users may now easily add features to their posts and websites, such as Facebook's "Like" button or Google Maps.

WordPress has six default shortcodes:

• Caption: Wraps captions around content
• Gallery: shows images gallery
• audio: embeds and plays audio files
• Video: embeds and plays video files
• Playlist: displays a collection of video or audio files
• embed: wraps embedded items

How to create Shortcode in WordPress?

1. Log into your CPanel account.

2. Scroll down to the Files and choose File Manager.



3. Inside the public_html directory, choose the wp-content folder.


4. Select the themes folder and navigate to your current theme. In our example, this will be twentytwentyone.






5. On the top-left side of the page, click on the +File option.

6. Create a new file create_shortcode.php file.




7. Now include create_shortcode.php file in function.php. For that, right-click on the file and click Edit.

8. Add the following code to the function.php file.

• include('create_shortcode.php');

9. Now, Right-click on the create_shortcode.php file and choose Edit.

10. Add the below code into the create_shortcode.php file.

<?php
function subscribe_link(){
return 'Follow us on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://twitter.com/abc?s=20">Twitter</a>';
}
add_shortcode('subscribe', 'subscribe_link');
?>




You can test your shortcode by following the below steps:
1. Log into your WordPress Dashboard.
2. Navigate to post > Add New.
3. You can easily enter the [subscribe] tag into the post using the WordPress Block Editor:
4. Click on Preview > Preview in the new tab.