Title: Basic Shortcode How-to
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Basic Shortcode How-to

 *  [Rose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thorned-rose/)
 * (@thorned-rose)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-shortcode-how-to/)
 * For anyone wanting to add basic shortcode support —
 * 1. add the following to your theme or child theme’s functions.php:
 *     ```
       if ( function_exists( 'wpsabox_author_box' ) ):
       add_shortcode( 'yourshortcode', 'wpsabox_author_box' );
       endif;
       ```
   
 * Just replace yourshortcode with whatever you want.
 * 2. Set Simple Author Box setting “Manually insert the Simple Author Box” to Yes
 * 3. Place [yourshortcode] on whatever posts you want the author to appear on. 
   🙂
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-author-box/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-author-box/)

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 *  [rafaelzenato](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rafaelzenato/)
 * (@rafaelzenato)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-shortcode-how-to/#post-6087925)
 * Hi Thorned Rose.
    I was just looking for some help about this. I can not place
   the author box where I want (right after the post and before the comments box).
 * What should I write in [yourshortcode] text?
    And after that, I just paste the‘
   yourshortcode’ after my post?
 * Thanks in advance for your help.
 * My site is [this](http://www.nosnagringa.com.br/).
 *  [rafaelzenato](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rafaelzenato/)
 * (@rafaelzenato)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-shortcode-how-to/#post-6087926)
 * Woow, never mind. I just did what you said and that worked!!
    Thank you so much.

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 * Last reply from: [rafaelzenato](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rafaelzenato/)
 * Last activity: [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-shortcode-how-to/#post-6087926)
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