{"id":79083,"date":"2026-09-26T02:43:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T02:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysutoon.com\/?p=79083"},"modified":"2026-09-26T02:43:45","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T02:43:45","slug":"dennis-snell-enter-the-mess-shortcodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysutoon.com\/?p=79083","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Snell: Enter the mess: Shortcodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tonight I started working on some Shortcode processing in WordPress. This is an historically nasty problem because the Shortcode syntax and parsing is wildly dynamic.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Shortcode syntax is only technically recognized for shortcodes registered at the time of parsing. This means that there is not a general Shortcode grammar.<\/li>\n<li>Whether a shortcode has \u201ccontent,\u201d meaning whether it expects a closing tag, depends on whether the closing tag <em>exists<\/em> in the post.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a problem that has plagued me for years and I have generally just ignored. There\u2019s an open Core issue in Trac for changing some shortcode parsing (<a href=\"https:\/\/core.trac.wordpress.org\/ticket\/50683\">#50683<\/a>), and I have thought a lot about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But I think there is more to explore, and more to gain. Maybe this goes nowhere, but keep your eyes open for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I started working on some Shortcode processing in WordPress. This is an historically nasty problem because the Shortcode syntax and parsing is wildly dynamic. 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