Title: Named shortcodes
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Named shortcodes

 *  [jzapert](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jzapert/)
 * (@jzapert)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/named-shortcodes/)
 * It would be great if you could support named shortcodes instead of just IDs. 
   Some other PHP snippet plugins do these, but they have other limitation that 
   your plugin doesn’t.
 * This is important because editors and clients can be easily confused and it’s
   so much easier to explain to them a shortcode like [php snippet="pricing-box"]
   than [php id=2]. Every little thing that makes looking at code less technical
   and more verbal, helps with editors.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/php-code-for-posts/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/php-code-for-posts/)

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 *  [joshuaiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshuaiz/)
 * (@joshuaiz)
 * [10 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/named-shortcodes/#post-5427678)
 * Another vote for this.
 * Why add the title and description if you can only see it on the PHP Code settings
   page?
 *  [cityfox](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cityfox/)
 * (@cityfox)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/named-shortcodes/#post-5427684)
 * Named shortcodes would be great!

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