Title: Looking for shortcode help
Last modified: February 9, 2017

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# Looking for shortcode help

 *  Resolved [Dave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ccsm/)
 * (@ccsm)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/looking-for-shortcode-help/)
 * We’re updating our website and changing themes. The new theme doesn’t include
   the old these shortcodes, and we have about 3,000 pages on the site. I’ve tried
   to strip these shortcodes out a lot of different ways, but I’m not having much
   luck.
 * So I’d like to create a shortcode in the new theme that has the same names as
   the old shortcodes, but instead of do anything, I’d like the new shortcodes to
   just return the content. So they’ll be there, but they won’t do anything.
 * So how do you make a shortcode that doesn’t do anything except return the content?

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/looking-for-shortcode-help/#post-8784213)
 *     ```
       function dummy_shortcode($atts, $content) {
          return $content;
       }
       add_shortcode( 'shortcode1', 'dummy_shortcode' );
       add_shortcode( 'shortcode2', 'dummy_shortcode' );
       ```
   
 * and so on…
 *  Thread Starter [Dave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ccsm/)
 * (@ccsm)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/looking-for-shortcode-help/#post-8784359)
 * Perfect. Thank you so much!

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 * Last reply from: [Dave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ccsm/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/looking-for-shortcode-help/#post-8784359)
 * Status: resolved

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