WordPress shortcodes

What is a shortcode? AI explains:

WordPress shortcodes are placeholders you insert in content (posts, pages, widgets) that get replaced with dynamic content when the page loads. They use square brackets like `[gallery]` or `[contact_form]`, and let you add features—contact forms, image galleries, videos, maps, testimonials, pricing tables—without pasting complex code or learning HTML/PHP. Marketing teams can use them consistently across pages without involving developers; for example, `[office_hours]` might show location hours everywhere, and when the hours change, updating it once updates all pages. Plugins and themes provide many shortcodes, and developers can create custom ones for site-specific needs like displaying state-specific office information or embedding interactive elements.

For Woods & Woods, our shortcodes can be used in articles to represent commonly used values. Examples are [varating100] and [DICBasic]. Since the underlying value changes every year, it prevents writers and editors from having to go back and update posts and pages annually. 

Shortcodes that print values are available in the Woods Lawyers settings page in WordPress: https://woodslawyers.com/wp-admin/options-general.php?page=woods-lawyers-settings

If you don't remember the shortcode, you can visit this page and click the shortcode you want to use. Clicking the light grey box will copy the shortcode to the clipboard. You can then switch over to your article document and paste in the shortcode.

Shortcodes are also used to display our various interactive features, such as calculators, reviews, and toxic exposure. Each feature has its own settings page in WordPress. And each settings page has the same click to copy feature as described above, though most won't be used by anyone except the web developer.

Some of the calculators have configurable help text that is displayed to guide the user on how to enter information into input fields.

After updating the text, scroll down and click 'Save Changes' or 'Save Settings'. I should probably make those consistent.