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The theme comes with a huge number of shortcodes that allow you to add pre-designed content blocks by shortcodes into the content area of any page. Some shortcodes can also be added to a Text or HTML Widget in a sidebar or into any text-area. A shortcode gets processed once the page is viewed in the front of your website. For example, a contact form shortcode will display a contact form at the location where that shortcode was inserted into the content.

Editor Mode

The WordPress editor has two modes; Visual Mode (in some languages called “WYSIWYG Mode”) and Text Mode (in some languages called “HTML” Mode). To use the auto insert function for the shortcodes one has to use the Visual or Wysiwyg Mode of the editor.

The Shortcode Popup Window / Button [</>]

There are two ways to open the shortcode generator window and insert a shortcode while the editor is in Visual mode :

  1. Above the editor text-area by clicking on a button which looks like this : [</>].
  2. By clicking on the </> Shortcodes menu item in the WordPress Admin Bar

Click on one of those two buttons will open a popup window with a list of available shortcodes. The shortcode you select in that popup window will present two or three sections:

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Shortcodes Explained

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When you click on the shortcodes button a popup screen will appear with the following information :

  1. A list of available shortcodes
  2. One section, on the left explaining the shortcode and its parameters,
  3. One section on the right showing an already pre-generated shortcode, you can adjust the shortcode following the parameters as they are explained on the left. Once done adjusting select the modified shortcode, copy it and paste it into the page content, text area or text widget.
  4. Each of the parameters and its options. This list can be very long depending on the shortcode chosen

The already pre-generated shortcode in the top right of that window can be altered by following the explanation on the left. It is wise to adjust the variables while having that window open before hitting the shortcode insert button. The moment you copy the shortcode and close the shortcode screen you need to paste it into a textarea at the location where you want the shortcode to be executed.