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  Add Private Content to Posts via Shortcode

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  Display Upcoming Entries In Your Post With A WordPress Shortcode

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  Shortcode for Includes

  2572 readersOne thing that WordPress doesn’t have the ability to do “out-of-the-box” is do includes, in the sense of including the content of one post into the content of another post directly in the post editor. For the umpteenth time around here, shortcodes to the rescue! This issue came up while my co-worker Tim at Wufoo

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  Call a Widget with a Shortcode

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  How to: add a twitter dialog box anywhere on your blog

  1054 readersTwitter has become a very useful tool for all bloggers, and allows us to share and promote useful articles to fellow bloggers. Naturally, we have seen more and more twitter functions integrated into our blogs; the latest Official twitter button has even made it easier to integrate twitter buttons on your blog. But what if

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  WordPress hack: Use includes in your posts or pages

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  Custom Query Shortcode: Run a Loop inside Any Post/Page

  2456 readersI had the occasion yesterday to have a page with a section on it where it would output a very specific set of other pages, which would need to change dynamically. What I could have done is built a special page template for this page, and inside that template run a query_posts() to get these

• Turn your RSS feed into a shortcode

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