Shortcake (Shortcode UI)
Shortcake makes using WordPress shortcodes a piece of cake.
4.1(24 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 7 years agoAs of April 2026, Shortcake (Shortcode UI) is a WordPress shortcodes plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 4.1/5 rating from 24 reviews. It has been downloaded 415K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2015. Last updated 7 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 18% this week. Top alternative: Column Shortcodes.
4.1/524 reviews
10K+active installs
415K+total downloads
11 yearssince 2015
Overview
Used alongside add_shortcode, Shortcake supplies a user-friendly interface for adding a shortcode to a post, and viewing and editing it from within the content editor.
Once you’ve installed the plugin, you’ll need to register UI for your shortcodes. For inspiration, check out examples of Shortcake in the wild.
To report bugs or feature requests, please use Github issues.
Running tests
We have test coverage for PHP using PHPunit, and JavaScript using Jasmine.
Running tests locally
Jasmine tests can be run using grunt jasmine and are also run as part of the grunt scripts task. To update the core WordPress files used by the Jasmine test suite, run grunt updateJasmineCoreScripts --abspath="/path/to/wordpress-install".
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Totally handy
by Janice Thewa·6 years ago
Love using short codes, The block editor is handy too, but short codes are so nice. Good job.
nice
by Rae M. Anderson·8 years ago
nice
Woocommerce issues
by jeb·8 years ago
This plugin is god awful. Not only does it break parts of woocommerce their update notifications are insanely irritating when combined with profilepress.
Shortcodes aren’t that hard to add so it baffles me why people need a plugin like this to do such a simple task.
Very Very Nice!
by Toro_Unit (Hiroshi Urabe)·8 years ago
Good Plugin for useful shortcode!
good plugin
by musiclovers·8 years ago
love this plugin! thanks.
Download Trends
Today: 83Yesterday: 99This week: 404Period total: 22K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.5+ requiredTested up to 5.0.25 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v0.7
99.4%
v0.6
0.6%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
0.7.4 (January 16, 2019)
- Block editor compatability: prevent templates from being output before the document head, which forced the browser into quirksmode, breaking some CSS styles in the block editor.
- Bug fix: the above bugfix.
- Bug fix: Fix a javascript error which would cause the Insert Post Element modal to be blank if any shortcode contains a select field with no visible options and no default set.
- Bug fix: Fix a bug where the “Select Files” button in the media controller became unresponsive after a post element has been inserted.
- Enhancement: add an optional “allow clear” field attribute to be passed to select2 fields (post, user, or term select) so that multi-select fields can be cleared with a single click. (This option defaults to off and should not affect existing fields.)
Contributors
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