How Make Shortcode in WordPress

Today will learn how to make wordpress shortcode and print the shortcode and will print simple year using shortcode.

First of all make a function in my case i’ll make “date_jerry_function”.

<?php

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function date_jerry_function() {
$year = date(‘Y’);
return $year;
}
add_shortcode(‘year’, ‘date_jerry_function’);

Note: this code paste in your themes functions.php

Now we will echo this shortcode in any pages

<?php echo do_shortcode(“[year]”);?>

That’s all thank you.