WordPress Ideas » Topic: Shortcodes alternative

Bob Foster on "Shortcodes alternative"

Bob Foster — Sat, 12 Nov 2016 18:02:16 +0000

Cool idea but not for me. Very very sad...

saftausbeute on "Shortcodes alternative"

saftausbeute — Tue, 23 Aug 2016 18:38:20 +0000

Great idea. Shortcodes being editable within the post editor would be extremely helpful and much more user-friendly than how it's being handled at the moment.
Thank you!

Baikare Sandip on "Shortcodes alternative"

Baikare Sandip — Fri, 27 May 2016 13:22:22 +0000

Yes, that is great idea for shortcodes, so it'll be more easily for end user.

ika007 on "Shortcodes alternative"

ika007 — Fri, 27 May 2016 12:41:04 +0000

totally agree on this input

ib4s on "Shortcodes alternative"

ib4s — Sat, 07 May 2016 22:31:35 +0000

Sir Trevor is an new approach to WYSIWYG that seems a bit like what you are thinking about:
http://madebymany.github.io/sir-trevor-js/

You add content blocks to a page.
Each content block type has specific ways to configurate.

An Image has a src, align etc.
A map would have a center, zoom index etc.
A content listing would have ...

Maybe a virtual editor for shortcodes would be the next step - and maybe there are already plugins for that.

rasenmaehertest on "Shortcodes alternative"

rasenmaehertest — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 00:26:59 +0000

Thats a great Idea!

forinnov on "Shortcodes alternative"

forinnov — Sat, 16 Apr 2016 20:58:44 +0000

Agreed, especially with points (1) and (4)

Giorgos Sarigiannidis on "Shortcodes alternative"

Giorgos Sarigiannidis — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 15:47:59 +0000

I believe that the shortcodes functionality is something like a necessary evil for both developers and users. After reading the "Shortcode Roadmap Draft one" and all the discussion that it followed, I was wondering if we could push aside shortcodes completely in favor of a different way of inserting custom content in posts.

What I suggest considering is creating a new type of content (named "Content objects", "Content blocks" or whatever). On the image below I made a quick and rough mock-up (not a design proposal, of course - not even a complete wireframe which would cover all possible scenarios) to demonstrate the main idea:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/38634/Various/fireframe.png

Such an approach could have the following benefits:
1. End-user wouldn't have to memorize shortcodes and their parameters.
2. Content objects would be editable in the editor like any other object such as images or galleries, by clicking the pencil icon.
3. Developers could set what should appear if their plugin is uninstalled (keep the shortcode's content even if it's unformatted, declare some decent plugin-agnostic fallback or remove it completely).
4. Depending on the object, the user could see the actual content in the editor, the same way that they can see an embeded object or a gallery (even if the formatting isn't the same as the frontend's end result).