WordPress’ shortcodes API, allow us to use, inside post and page content, a set of macro codes, inspired by BBCode formatting code, when presenting to the website visitant, are substituted by the function they abstract. In addition to WordPress’ shortcodes, both themes and plugins can add new ones. We will find all about it in this article.
In the second part of our WordPress development tutorial series we will cover how filters work. They are very similar to actions, with a slight difference: every filter function receives an argument and returns, transformed or not, the first received argument.
This is the first in a series of WordPress development tutorials we will be publishing. The subject will be divided by topics. You will need nothing more than a WordPress previously installed on your own server and some rudimentary PHP knowledge.
