Categorize Shortcodes and Performence

  • Hi,

    1. any plans to add categories so we can categorize the shortcodes.
    2. why tags? i tried to use the same tags on a few shortcodes so i can group them through the tags – but categories are way better to use. Or did i miss something?
    3. Some say “echo shortcode” performs bad in templates – calling the shortcode callback directly is better. Is this possible – if yes how?
    4. I read “Improve the shortcode performance with the WordPress Transients API” does your plugin uses transients to improve performence?

    Thx

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  • Plugin Author vaakash

    (@vaakash)

    Hi @evalast,

    1) 2) Taxonomies like categories, tags makes sense for posts.

    But the tags feature in shortcoder is just to tag similar shortcodes for convenience with which you can click and filter related shortcodes.

    Having another taxonomy like categories adds no value. You can do the same with tags.

    3) To execute any shortcode in WordPress in a theme template, you have to use do_shorcode() function. This is only way to execute shortcode. Performance depends on what the shortcode is and it’s implementation.

    4) Transients are used to cache temp data. It is not needed for Shortcoder. Shortcoder has its own logic to cache shortcode and content inmemory like, when the same shortcode is used multiple times on a page, it is loaded only once.

    Thanks,
    Aakash

    Thread Starter evalast

    (@evalast)

    thx for your answer – i disagree that tags and cats are the same. The user experience is not the same. The categories select box is way more user friendly then tags. I see all cats listet and with tags its not the case. Als i can sort them in the list of post by category but never saw a sorting function by tags.

    best

    Plugin Author vaakash

    (@vaakash)

    Hi @evalast,

    I agree, but these taxonomies add value for posts and visitors. But w.r.t shortcodes they are helpful only for admins to organize them. Both provide the same outcome though the interface might be slightly different.

    Thanks,
    Aakash

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