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This plugin allows you to refer to a WordPress shortcode within the content of posts and pages without that shortcode being automagically expanded by WordPress. The plugin takes advantage of the fact that the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress ShortCode API</a> does not support nested shortcodes to allow this plugin’s shortcode to wrap the shortcode being documented.
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The shortcode parser uses a single pass on the post content. This means that if 
 the $content parameter of a shortcode handler contains another shortcode, it won’t 
 be parsed
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The plugin supports both the self closing <code>[shortcode]</code> and enclosing <code>[shortcode]content[/shortcode]</code> forms and supports a short form name of the shortcode, <code>[wp_scs]</code> as well as the more verbose <code>[wp_shortcode_shield]</code> form. For the sake of brevity, the remainder of this documentation will use the <code>[wp_scs]</code> short form name.
If using the self-closing form of the shortcode, you need to supply the name of the shortcode you are documenting using the <code>code</code> attribute but without using the enclosing <code>[</code> and <code>]</code> characters. This is because when parsing shortcodes, WordPress looks for the first occurrence of the ‘]’ character to terminate the shortcode. As a result of this, usage such as
<pre><code>[wp_scs code="[another-shortcode-name]"]
</code></pre>
… WordPress will use the ‘]’ character inside the <code>code</code> attribute to try and terminate the shortcode name, which is not what is desired. Instead, the plugin automagically adds the terminating ‘[‘ and ‘]’ characters to the plugin’s output, so that usage such as
<pre><code>[wp_scs code="another-shortcode-name"]
</code></pre>
… will display [another-shortcode-name] in your post’s of page’s content.
If you are using the enclosing form of the shortcode, you can either supply the shortcode to be documented with or without enclosing ‘[‘ and ‘]’ characters; if they are omitted, the plugin will add them for you, so that usage such as
<pre><code>[wp_scs][another-shortcode-name][/wp_scs]
</code></pre>
… and
<pre><code>[wp_scs]another-shortcode-name[/wp_scs]
</code></pre>
… will display the same results, namely [another-shortcode-name].
Finally a note of caution, you cannot mix the enclosing and self closing form of the plugin’s shortcode within the same post or page; this is not a limitation of the plugin, but the way in which WordPress implements the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API" rel="nofollow ugc">ShortCode API</a> …
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The parser does not handle mixing of enclosing and non-enclosing forms of the same 
 shortcode as you would want it to. For example, if you have:
<code>[myshortcode example='non-enclosing' /] non-enclosed content [myshortcode] enclosed content 
 [/myshortcode]</code>
Instead of being treated as two shortcodes separated by the text ” non-enclosed content “, 
 the parser treats this as a single shortcode enclosing ” non-enclosed content [myshortcode] 
 enclosed content”.
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WP Shortcode Shield

Allows posts and pages to easily document WordPress shortcodes without the shortcode being expanded.

Brainstorm Force

Pratik Chaskar

Build documentation website with live search functionality. This plugin provides shortcodes to display category list & live search input box.

BSF Docs

I tried so many documentation/ knowledge base plugins before but no other one is so easy to use as this one. It has just the right amout of features and styling out of the box you are actually using it within few minutes.

And the categories overview on the Docs archive page is also perfect! For 99% of use cases this would be enough already - and yes, this all comes out of the box.

Yeah, and then there's the built-in live search feature - I was blown away by this one! It is so fast, fully working out of the box. Never seen than before and I've struggled with a lot other complex plugins to do such thing - only to be let down.

But BSF Docs is just perfect for providing documentation and a search feature to quickly find it.

Thanks so much Team Brainstorm Force for developing it and releasing it for free!

Perfect for Documentation & Knowledge Base!

This is a great plugin that's simple to get up and running with. We use it for our themes documentation support pages and its a breeze to administer. 

Great plugin!

BSF Docs allows you to create documentation website within minute with ajax search.

WP Shortcode Shield vs BSF Docs