Title: [Plugin: Mini Loops] Adding Shortcodes ?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Mini Loops] Adding Shortcodes ?

 *  Resolved [sugardaddy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sugardaddy/)
 * (@sugardaddy)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mini-loops-adding-shortcodes/)
 * I’m trying to add some new shortcodes but it’s not interpreted.
    In fact, I’m
   using [KIA Subtitle](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/kia-subtitle/) which
   add a subtitle field (just under the title and that’s better for my user than
   a custom field) and is accessible with the_subtitle or get_the_subtitle functions.
   I know I could achieve that with custom fields… but I’m curious to know why my
   try failed. Here is the code I add to helpers.php :
 *     ```
       add_shortcode( 'ml_subtitle' , 'miniloop_subtitle' );
       function miniloop_subtitle( $atts ) {
       	extract( shortcode_atts( array(
       		'length' => 0, //characters
       		'before' => '',
       		'after' => '',
       	), $atts ) );
       	$subtitle = apply_filters( 'the_subtitle', get_the_subtitle() );
   
       	if ($length)
       		$subtitle = substr( $subtitle, 0, $length );
   
       	$subtitle = $before . $subtitle . $after;
   
       	return $subtitle;
       }
       ```
   
 * Thanks for your help !
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mini-loops/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/mini-loops/)

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 *  Thread Starter [sugardaddy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sugardaddy/)
 * (@sugardaddy)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mini-loops-adding-shortcodes/#post-2941040)
 * any idea ? (back from vacation)
 *  Thread Starter [sugardaddy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sugardaddy/)
 * (@sugardaddy)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-mini-loops-adding-shortcodes/#post-2941043)
 * This code is incorrect… I forget something very important.
 * $subtitle = apply_filters( ‘the_subtitle’, get_the_subtitle(**$post_id**) );
 * It works like a charm !

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