Shortcoder — Create Shortcodes for Anything

6.4

• New: Option to set shortcode display name next to shortcode name.
• New: Option to execute WordPress block HTML in shortcode content.
• Fix: Shortcoder roles are registered when plugin is activated.

6.3.2

• Fix: Verify permissions while closing Shortcoder changelog.

6.3.1

• Fix: Admin ajax vulnerability with nonce.

6.3

• New: Set default value for the custom field parameters.
• New: Custom parameter default value is shown in the insert shortcode popup.
• Fix: Restrict access to admin-ajax calls.
• Fix: Some admin texts were missing translation.
• Fix: Removed the note in the insert popup for fully closed shortcode.
• Fix: Debug comment line now has the name of the shortcode.

6.2

• New: Option to show shortcode content in “All shortcodes” page.
• Fix: Some texts were not translated.
• Fix: Error in WP Bakery page builder while picking images.

6.1

• New: Enhancements to shortcode edit screen meta boxes.
• Fix: HTML is escaped in the editor sometimes.
• Fix: Support for WordPress 6.1

6.0

• New: PRO version is introduced.
• New: Prevent same shortcode nested loop.
• New: New actions and filters introduced.
• Fix: Post excerpt shortcode parameter now prints full post excerpt.
• Fix: Enhancements to input and output data sanitization.

5.8

• New: Option to set description for the shortcode.
• New: New actions and filters introduced.
• Fix: Minor admin UI enhancements.

5.7

• New: Reordered shortcode column in the “All shortcodes” page.
• New: Option to copy shortcode directly from “All shortcodes” page.
• New: Filter sc_mod_content to modify shortcode content before execution.
• Fix: Shortcode won’t save if the email field in the feedback form has invalid value.
• Fix: Custom parameter with hyphen was not highlighted in code editor.
• Fix: Minor admin UI enhancements.

5.6

• New: Shortcodes available to copy/insert are now closed by default.
• Fix: Custom parameter value 0 is not displayed.
• Fix: Support for WordPress 5.8

5.5

• New: General settings page to configure default editor and shortcode content.
• New: Block to insert shortcode rewritten from scratch.
• New: Toolbar button to insert shortcodes inline.
• New: Shortcodes are now closed by default when inserted from editor.
• Fix: Custom fields parsing issue when they are placed next to each other.
• Fix: Enclosed content in block input now retains multi-line.
• Fix: Minor refinements to UI.

5.4

• New: Code editor is now loaded locally and not from cloudflare.
• New: Code editor now shows hints and highlights any syntax error.
• New: Hyphens can now be used in shortcode custom parameters.
• Fix: Handle scenario where shortcode attribute is received as a string sometimes.
• Fix: Notice where wp_localize_script was called incorrectly.
• Fix: Handle scenario where HTML is passed as shortcode parameter.
• New: WordPress requirement changed from 4.4 to 4.9

5.3.4

• New: Tested with WordPress 5.6
• Fix: Handle warning with trim while fetching page metadata at some pages.

5.3.3

• New: Support for post slug as the new shortcode parameter under WordPress information.
• New: Codemirror has been updated to latest version.
• Fix: Handle code editor loading issue when there is any collision.
• Fix: Handle input fields which have empty id attribute.
• Fix: Handle issue of $post object being undefined at some cases.
• Fix: Renamed usages of __class__ to __CLASS__

5.3.2

• New: In code editor, shortcodes will be highlighted and code editor font size is slightly bigger.

5.3.1

• New: Code editor is now made the default editor.
• Fix: Minor changes to admin UI.

5.3

• New: Added support for underscores in custom parameters.
• New: Getting ready for internationalization of the plugin.
• Fix: Insert shortcode popup shows duplicate available parameters in case of same parameter with different case.

5.2.1

• Fix: Custom parameters being not replaced in some scenarios.
• Fix: Minor enhancement to insert custom parameter form.

5.2

• New: Default values can now be provided to custom parameters.
• Fix: Script tags, custom field placeholder and backslash being stripped after saving the shortcode sometimes.
• Fix: Rel attribute being modified for links.
• New: Added “Manage shortcodes” link to plugin list page for easy access after activation.

5.1

• New: Import/Export link added to the shortcoder list page.
• Fix: empty() was throwing error at some places for users using PHP 5.5 below as function return value was passed to it.
• Fix: Shortcoder QTTags button was loading in frontends.
• Fix: “Insert shortcode” popup was hidden behind in theme customizer page.
• Fix: array_key_exists array but bool given warning.
• Fix: Hide comments metabox in shortcode edit page as it was shown in certain conditions.

5.0.4

• Fix: script and style tags stripped after 4.x upgrade. New migration will run in this version and shortcode content will now be fixed.

5.0.3

• Fix: Shortcode content is not escaped when code editor is used. This is requirement because post_content behaves strangely when user has rich editing enabled.

5.0.2

• Fix: Shortcodes inside shortcode content not getting executed.
• Fix: Disable Gutenberg block for older not supported WordPress versions.

5.0.1

• Fix: Code editor escaping HTML characters.
• Fix: get_current_screen() undefined.
• Fix: Code editor breaks if there is any other plugin which loads codemirror.
• Fix: tools.php is not found.

5.0

• New: Brand new version. Plugin rewritten from scratch.
• New: Shortcoder block for the block editor.

4.4

• New: Insert shortcode automatically adds “closing tag” if the shortcode has enclosed content parameter.
• Fix: Codemirror has been updated to latest version.

4.3

• New: Edit shortcode name after creating.
• New: Post modified date parameter added.
• Fix: Date parameters now display in site language.

4.2

• Fix: Some plugins fail to fire onload JS event since it was overwritten by shortcoder.
• Fix: Javascript in insert shortcode popup not working in IE 11.
• Fix: Missing parenthesis while calling is_year.
• Fix: Widgets page not loading insert shortcode popup.
• Fix: Removed settings emoji icon from plugin actions list.
• Fix: Load latest version 5.42.0 of codemirror.
• Fix: Updated minimum required WordPress version.

4.1.9

• Fix: Minor UI refinements for better experience.
• Fix: Import error where some exported JSON files have 0 as EOF.

4.1.8

• New: Insert custom fields in shortcode content.
• Fix: Removed comments in shortcode output

4.1.7

• New: Categorize, search and filter shortcodes using “tags”.
• New: Last used shortcode editor will be saved along with shortcode.
• New: Enclosed shortcode content can now be used as shortcode parameter.
• New: Active line highlight has been enabled for code editor.
• Fix: Codemirror has been updated to latest version.
• Fix: Minor admin interface enhancements.

4.1.6

• New: Date variables can noe be added into shortcode content.
• Fix: Error “trying to get property of non-object” is handled.

4.1.5

• New: Bloginfo variables can now be added into shortcode content.

4.1.4

• New: Codemirror powered syntax highlighted shortcode content code editor (beta).

4.1.3

• Fix: Shortcode names with not-allowed characters cannot be edited/deleted.
• New: Shortcode imports made can now be fresh or overwritten.
• New: Only users with manage_options capability will see “edit shortcode” option in insert window.
• Fix: Import failure with UTF-8 characters.
• Fix: Case sensitive search in admin pages.
• Fix: Minor admin interface changes.

4.1.2

• New: Search box for shortcodes in admin page.

4.1.1

• Fix: HTTP 500 error because of syntax error in import module.

4.1

• New: Import/export feature for shortcodes.
• Fix: Visual editor is now disabled by default.
• Fix: Added instructions in admin page.

4.0.3

• New: Added feature to sort created shortcodes list.
• Fix: HTML errors in admin page

4.0.2

• Fix: Sometimes get_current_screen() was called early in some setups.

4.0.1

• Fix: Servers with PHP version < 5.5 were facing HTTP 500 error because of misuse of PHP language construct in code.

4.0

• New: Plugin rewritten from scratch.
• New: Brand new administration page
• New: Shortcode visibility settings, show/hide in desktop/mobile devices
• New: Insert WordPress information into shortcode content.
• Fix: Insert shortcode window is not loading.
• Fix: Unable to delete the shortcodes

(Older change logs are removed from this list)