Title: Code Snippets CPT
Author: Justin Sternberg
Published: December 20, 2014
Last modified: April 5, 2017
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# code-snippets-cpt
By [Justin Sternberg](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jtsternberg/)
* [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets-cpt/#description)
* [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets-cpt/#reviews)
* [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets-cpt/#developers)
[Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/code-snippets-cpt/)
## Description
This plugin has been closed as of March 6, 2025 and is not available for download.
Reason: Security Issue.
## Reviews
### [Outstanding – Does What it Says, and Does it Well](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/outstanding-does-what-it-says-and-does-it-well/)
[Chad Butler](https://profiles.wordpress.org/cbutlerjr/) May 4, 2017 1 reply
This is an outstanding plugin. It does exactly what it says and it does it well.
As a developer who runs a few blogs that provide code snippets, I needed a solution
that was beyond just displaying code snippets in my posts (where then the code snippet
was part of the post content). I needed something to keep the actual code snippets
separate from the post content. This plugin does that perfectly. As described, snippets
are saved as CPTs (Custom Post Types) and the code snippet can then be used in a
post as a shortcode. That would have been good enough for me on its own, but Code
Snippets CPT takes it a step farther. Justin allows snippets to be categorized and
tagged, and the editor also displays the necessary shortcode for you. Added bonus:
when writing post content it adds a button to the editor to find snippet shortcodes
to insert. Let me add that as a professional developer who makes their living with
WordPress, I have pretty high standards. I’ve seen and tested a lot of plugins that
should never see the light of day. So when I give a 5 star rating, I mean it. And
I would give this 6 stars if I could.
### [Very handsome plugin, but no way to execute!](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/very-handsome-plugin-but-no-way-to-execute/)
[makdev](https://profiles.wordpress.org/makdev/) January 29, 2017 1 reply
Great for creating and maintaining what I call a custom CODELIB. But without an
alternative to choose some of this code to execute on my site this has only exhibition
value… What’s the use of me knowing how to create a custom WP role, for example,
if I cannot utilize it on my site when needed?
### [Excellent](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/excellent-3874/)
[philippenantes](https://profiles.wordpress.org/philippenantes/) October 31, 2016
2 replies
Does what is says. Would be great if shortcode could accept en ID as a parameter.
Would be great if description would show the slug of the cpt, which is ‘code-snippets’
Would be great also to have a straight forward example of a query to dispplay all
snippets on a page. For those who would like to see an example, this is what i did
in a template page : // WP_Query arguments $args = array ( ‘post_type’ => ‘code-
snippets’, ‘posts_per_page’ => ‘-1’, ‘order’ => ‘ASC’, ); // The Query $myquery
= new WP_Query( $args ); while ($myquery->have_posts()) { $myquery->the_post(); ?
> ” class=”page” role=”article”> post_name.’ lang=php]’); ?>