To use news shortcodes, you must publish your news items as posts in WordPress. Shortcodes do not display WordPress pages. Additionally, if you want to output separate news feeds that are specific to ...

An advisory has been issued about a high-severity WordPress vulnerability that makes it possible for attackers to inject arbitrary shortcodes into sites using the WordPress Popular Posts plugin.

WordPress upgraded to 4.3.1, patching a pair of vulnerabilities in the core engine, including a cross-site scripting issue enabled by a vulnerability in shortcodes. WordPress core engine security ...

Before WordPress 4.3 Beta was released, we were writing about a set of possible new features the dev team was considering for the upcoming version. While most were included with the first beta of the ...

Shortcodes in WordPress are small snippets of text that you can enter into a post or page body which trigger a larger function to run at that position. It’s the equivalent of inserting a program ...