Hmmm, perhaps I +1ed this too early... I had no idea the shortcode was so flexible -- and I have never even heard of the [youtube] one! Neat!
-- Rick On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Matt Mullenweg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Spencer Lavery wrote: > > Instead of forcing each image to be wrapped in a DL, add some new WP > > template tags for targeting the gallery specifically inside the loop, > > for example: > > I think Andy already articulated the point really well, but it might > also help to take a step back and think of shortcodes like little magic > expansions. > > The most popular shortcode we've done thus far is a youtube one, which > is like [youtube http://youtube.com/?v=aoeuaoue]. This gets expanded, > just like the gallery shortcode, into a magic snippet on display. A > blogger can easily move it around their post, copy and paste it, and > modify its arguments. In the [youtube] case there's just a single > argument, but others might have more complex ones, like the gallery > shortcode. > > Hardcoding the magic expansions into the theme would be really > inflexible for both the blogger and themer. This combines the best of > blogger ease-of-use with theme control, as they can override any aspect > already. > > > -- > Matt Mullenweg > http://ma.tt | http://automattic.com > _______________________________________________ > wp-testers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers > -- Rick Beckman http://rickbeckman.org/ http://fellowship-hall.com/ _______________________________________________ wp-testers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-testers
