Before we look at how to register WordPress custom shortcodes, let’s be clear: If there’s one thing Gutenberg is about to kill, it’s the use of WordPress shortcodes in content creation.

This introduction to PHP output buffering and its uses in WordPress contains a few helpful resources:

We’re doing a WordPress development training session tomorrow!

Using WP_Query for the first time can be scary. If you’re an established programmer who is well acquainted with object-oriented programming, it’s pretty easy. But if you’re not you need to use WordPress’s looping concept, and an object, for the first time, and it’s a lot to take in. Don’t get overwhelmed. Copying and pasting the first few (dozen) times is how everyone learns. My hope is that the video gives you some understanding though:

One of my favorite features of WordPress (as a developer) is shortcodes. I think they’re not super great to hand off to end users, but I find they’re fantastic for both

As a very powerful, well-documented, and relatively user-friendly CMS, WordPress attracts a lot of do-it-yourself energy.

WordPress has many somewhat hidden features and one of my favourites are shortcodes. In this post we’ll learn exactly what they are, when to use them, why they’re so brilliant and how to use them.