How to chance shorcode position

don’t echo, but return what you want printed to the screen.

this is placed in the functions.php

function news_events_side() {
?>
<div class="inner-news">
<h2 class="main-title">News & Events</h2>
                <?php $newscat = get_cat_id('news'); $eventscat = get_cat_id('events'); ?>
                 <?php $shortnne = new WP_Query('cat='. $newscat . ','. $eventscat .'&showposts=2');
					  while ($shortnne->have_posts()) : $shortnne->the_post(); ?>
                <div class="mini-post">
                    <h4><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title() ?></a></h4>
                  <p><?php custom_excerpt(10,false) ?><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>">&raquo;</a></p>
                </div>
            <?php endwhile; wp_reset_postdata(); ?>
<a href="#" class="see-more">See more</a>
</div>
<?php } 

add_shortcode('news_events', 'news_events_side');

I don’t understand what do you mean with don’t echo, thanks!

Thanks! Here is the new code…

function news_events_side() {
	$newscat = get_cat_id('news'); $eventscat = get_cat_id('events');
    $output = '<div class="inner-news">';
	$output .= '<h2 class="main-title">News & Events</h2>';
                 $shortnne = new WP_Query('cat='. $newscat . ','. $eventscat .'&showposts=2');
					  while ($shortnne->have_posts()) : $shortnne->the_post();
                $output .= '<div class="mini-post">';
                 $output .= '<h4><a href="'. get_permalink() .'">' . get_the_title() . '</a></h4>';
                 $output .= '<p>' . get_custom_excerpt(10) . '<a href="' . get_permalink() .'">&raquo;</a></p>';
                $output .= '</div>';
            endwhile; wp_reset_postdata();
   $output .= '<a href="#" class="see-more">See more</a></div>';
   return $output;
} 

add_shortcode('news_events', 'news_events_side');

basically you are printing direct to the screen – if you do that then the output will appear before the content. To get the output to appear exactly where you place the shortcode you need to return a variable.

ahh you replied as I was posting, looks ok.