The simplest and most flexible way to embed images or put internal links in Wordpress. Shortcodes to finally ditch all absolute paths and fixed sizes.
As of April 2026, Simple Stupid Shortcode is a WordPress embed plugin with 0 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 8.8K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2017. Last updated 8 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: EmbedPress – PDF Embedder, Embed….
The usual way to include images in WordPress posts is to generate static anchor and <img> tags through the content editor interface. Similarly, links to other posts or pages of your blog are also generated as absolute <a> tags by the content editor.
These kind of fixed links make your WordPress site hard to migrate and make it especially hard to automatically change your output markup (for instance if you decide to change the image size or change a post’s title).
No longer.
With this plug-in, you can use the simple [image], [link], and [page] shortcodes in any of your posts.
Images are referenced by their ID, for instance:
[image id="123"]
This shortcode will generate the following HTML structure:
<div class="picture wp-image-123 size-medium">
<img…| WordPress | 4.6+ requiredTested up to 4.9.29 |
| PHP | false+ required |
atts and imgatts attributes for [image] shortcodes.Plugin data sourced from WordPress.org. Analysis and metrics by PluginSift.