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Automatic shortcode selection in wordpress

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Add this snippet to the functions.php of your wordpress theme. This will add a select menu with an automatically generated list of your shortcodes for your pages and posts.

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  1. // shortcode button
  2.  
  3. add_action('media_buttons','add_sc_select',11);
  4. function add_sc_select(){
  5.     global $shortcode_tags;
  6.      /* ------------------------------------- */
  7.      /* enter names of shortcode to exclude bellow */
  8.      /* ------------------------------------- */
  9.     $exclude = array("wp_caption", "embed");
  10.     echo '&nbsp;<select id="sc_select"><option>Shortcode</option>';
  11.     foreach ($shortcode_tags as $key => $val){
  12.             if(!in_array($key,$exclude)){
  13.             $shortcodes_list .= '<option value="['.$key.'][/'.$key.']">'.$key.'</option>';
  14.             }
  15.         }
  16.      echo $shortcodes_list;
  17.      echo '</select>';
  18. }
  19. add_action('admin_head', 'button_js');
  20. function button_js() {
  21.         echo '<script type="text/javascript">
  22.         jQuery(document).ready(function(){
  23.            jQuery("#sc_select").change(function() {
  24.                           send_to_editor(jQuery("#sc_select :selected").val());
  25.                           return false;
  26.                 });
  27.         });
  28.         </script>';
  29. }

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