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Shortcode – Googlemaps

To embed content from google maps:

  1. Make sure the Jetpack plugin is enabled and you have activated the shortcode module.
  2. Open a map page find and copy the embed code.
  3. Create a page or post (or edit an existing one.
  4. Switch to the Text Editor and paste in the code.
  5. Publish or update your post.

Here is a screenshot of the bottom left of a google map.

Click the cog to get the embed code:

googlemap-embed

This open a lightbox where you can choose the embed code, the size and copy the code:

embed-map

 

Which gives:

Shortcode – Twitter

Once you have enabled the twitter-timeline feature you can paste in the embed code for a tweet and it will be nicely formatted.

You can find the code to embed a tweet buy clicking the elipsis and choosing embed:
tweet-embed

Shortcode – archive

The [[archive]] shortcode will produce a list of posts:

There are lots of options:

[archives format=option  limit=12] gives a popup menu:

Archives Shortcode — Support — WordPress.com gies more details of all the options.

Shortcode- Tedtalk Video

You need to go to the tedtalk page and get the link and paste it in.

When I posted that it produced a link to a page on text explaining some technical difficulties. Since then it has started working.

Shortcodes – YouTube Video

Just paste in a youtube url and the player is embedded.

You can also paste in the embed code from YouTube and it will be converted to a shortcake, this is handy if you want to customise the video size or other options. For example avoid showing released videos.

Alternatively you can add ?rel=0 after the url before pasting it in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2wrYBPLsxg?rel=0

Which will hide related videos.

Markdown

Markdown is a markup language with plain text formatting syntax. Markdown – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

It allows you to markup text without using the buttons in the WordPress Editor.

Markdown Syntax Documentation

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This is what I typed for the above.

Although markdown is popular amount tech bloggers we do not expect many folk to use markdown. It might be a way to introduce coding to pupils.

 

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