How to Add Shortcode in WordPress Elementor

A shortcode is a text element that allows you to add in and display content created in the database somewhere else. For example, you can create a pricing table within a plugin and then use a shortcode to display the pricing table on your website with ease.

WordPress has a library of shortcodes that you can use at any time. For example, you can use ‘gallery’, ‘audio’, and others already before you need to use a WordPress plugin. And numerous other plugins use shortcodes to add information. One classic example is WooCommerce, though there are others that you probably come across.

Shortcodes are relatively simple. And they offer an effective way to design an element once and then place it across multiple points across the channel. For example, you can use the shortcode to display adverts across your website. Each shortcode represents a client who has paid to feature on your website once.

The shortcode could be something like [advert-1] and when a new month comes and a new client is paying for that space, you change the advert in a master location, which then pushes that change across all the spaces that shortcode is used.

They, therefore, save time and money.

In addition, it prevents you from making a mistake when you might have a pricing table, and copying it several times causes a typo in one version. With a shortcode, the information is the same, and small changes can be made once on the master version which will then display on all other locations.

Adding a shortcode to an Elementor website page is relatively simple. All you need to do is to enter the page to which you would like to add the shortcode. Ensure that you’re in the Elementor page editor screen. Then drag the Elementor shortcode widget into the page, post, or template.

Once done, you can enter the shortcode into the textbox area that displays on the screen. You can make changes to the shortcode using the custom CSS option that is located in the advanced tab.

Once done, save the page, post, or template and you’re done.