Suggestions for the Shortcodes Column

I find the Shortcodes column quite useful. Unfortunately, it doesn’t report shortcodes used within other shortcodes. So just for example, say you’re using shortcodes to create tabs and accordions:

[tabs]
[tab-1]
[accordion]
[accordion-item-1] CONTENT [/accordion-item-1]
[accordion-item-2] CONTENT [/accordion-item-2]
[/accordion]
[tab-2]
[accordion]
[accordion-item-1] CONTENT [/accordion-item-1]
[accordion-item-2] CONTENT [/accordion-item-2]
[/accordion]
[/tabs]

The only thing reported in the Shortcodes column is [tabs] — [accordion] gets ignored.

Conversely, when inserting the same shortcode multiple times, it gets listed for each occurrence instead of simply listing the number of occurrences. For instance, a post might include several Click-to-Tweet shortcodes:

CONTENT
[bctt tweet="QUOTE"]
CONTENT
[bctt tweet="ANOTHER QUOTE"]

In this case, the Shortcodes column lists each instance of use:

[bctt],[bctt]

That might be fine when there are only a few, but some shortcodes get used a lot more and get repeated up to a dozen times in the column, which takes up far too much space and is too difficult to read.

I would suggest just reporting the number of instances of use instead:

[bctt] x 2

Many thanks for considering these suggestions!

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