Title: Changing shortcode?
Last modified: August 4, 2022

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# Changing shortcode?

 *  Resolved [mrclean123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrclean123/)
 * (@mrclean123)
 * [4 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-shortcode-2/)
 * Is it possible to add a setting where we can change the shortcode? Yoast automatically
   adds html anchors for headings, so now every heading id starts with h-auto-list-
   number. I’d rather have something shorter like ‘h-aln’.

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 *  Plugin Author [Andy Feliciotti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/someguy9/)
 * (@someguy9)
 * [4 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-shortcode-2/#post-15889062)
 * [@mrclean123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrclean123/) are you using 
   Gutenberg? You can click the advanced area of the heading and remove the tag 
   from the ID (I have to commonly do this on my sites) let me know if that helps!
   I’ll also look into adding a shortened tag.
 *  Thread Starter [mrclean123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrclean123/)
 * (@mrclean123)
 * [4 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-shortcode-2/#post-15889066)
 * Is there a more efficient way to do this? I publish so much content seems like
   a massive waste of time to manually do this for each heading. I’ve reached out
   to Yoast to see if I can stop the id’s from auto filling in the first place. 
   Oh, and thanks for considering adding a shorter tag.
    -  This reply was modified 4 years ago by [mrclean123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrclean123/).
 *  Plugin Author [Andy Feliciotti](https://wordpress.org/support/users/someguy9/)
 * (@someguy9)
 * [4 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-shortcode-2/#post-15889155)
 * [@mrclean123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrclean123/) Keep me posted
   because I would love to filter that personally, I hate how it adds h- as well.
   To my knowledge there isn’t much I can do besides make a shorter shortcode.
 *  Thread Starter [mrclean123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrclean123/)
 * (@mrclean123)
 * [4 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-shortcode-2/#post-15908312)
 * Turns out it was my theme adding it, not Yoast.

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