@nicnack
Sorry to disappoint you, but this plugin serves other purpose rather than creating Shortcodes. It allows you to add existing Shortcodes in sidebars using a Shortcode Widget, that enables you to write the Shortcode in it.
For instance you can use the [gallery] Shortcode available in WordPress by default to display a gallery in your sidebar by using this widget
Eg.
[gallery ids="6,5,4"]
IDs are the media attachment IDs in this example.
Still if you can let me know exactly what you’re trying to achieve, I definitely can help you out with that.
ah okay. I have a paragraph of text that is repeated in several parts of the website, so I was hoping to make a shortcode and just use that, so that whenever I make changes to that paragraph, I only have to do it in one location. make sense? so basically I want to make a shortcode for some text
In case you’re not familiar with coding, then this plugin could help
Shortcoder
It will allow you to create a shortcode that you can copy and paste in content.
but if you’re familiar with coding, I’d suggest you make use of this code instead:
function nic_repeating_paragraph() {
return "this is my repetitive paragraph";
}
add_shortcode( 'nic-paragraph', 'nic_repeating_paragraph' );
This will create a shortcode which you can use like [nic-paragraph]
You can put this code in either your site’s child theme’s functions.php file or any custom plugin that you have on your site.
I hope this helps.