Talking Drupal #509 - A WordPresser @ DrupalCon

Today we are talking about DrupalCon, Wordpress, and what a
wordpress guy can learn at a Drupal Event with guest Chris
Reynolds. We’ll also cover Shortcode as our module of the week.


For show notes visit:
https://www.talkingDrupal.com/509
Topics

The Pros and Cons of Short Codes

Chris Reynolds' Journey to DrupalCon

Comparing DrupalCon and WordCamp

Funding and Organization of WordPress Events

The Collaborative Spirit of the Drupal Community

Wishlist for WordPress Features

Composer Support in WordPress and Drupal

Backward Compatibility in WordPress

Challenges with Composer in Drupal

Config Management in WordPress vs. Drupal

Responsive Image Management

User Experience in Drupal

Community Collaboration Between WordPress and Drupal

Resources

A Wordpresser Goes To DrupalCon Atlanta 2025

wpcfm

Longhorn PHP Conference Oct 23-25 in Austin, TX

Call for proposals through July 18

Join #texas-camp in Drupal Slack if you’re interested in
organizing a mini Texas Camp to pair with Longhorn PHP



WP community collective

Guests

Chris Reynolds - jazzsequence.com jazzsequence
Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
JD Leonard - jdleonard
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu.com mandclu


Brief description:

Have you ever wanted your Drupal site to support
WordPress-style shortcodes, macros to be used within content?
There’s a module for that.



Module name/project name:

Shortcode



Brief history

How old: created in Sep 2010 by Dénes Szabó (denes.szabo)
of Tag1

Versions available: 2.0.3, which supports ^9.3 ^10 ^11



Maintainership

Security coverage

Test coverage

Number of open issues: 30 open issues, 3 of which are
bugs against the current branch



Usage stats:

13,260 sites (almost 70% are D7 however)



Module features and usage

For anyone not familiar with WordPress short codes, the
documentation describes them as macros, and most often they
are used for inserting elements into content such as image
galleries, videos, playlists, and more. Shortcodes can also
wrap content, however, and it’s possible to nest shortcodes
as well.

Drupal typically solves the problems addressed by
shortcodes using custom HTML elements, as implemented in the
media ecosystem, or with the Entity Embed module. I think
that shortcodes may also be useful in places where Drupal
might also rely on tokens, albeit with an additional module
like Token Filter.

Gutenberg includes a Shortcode block that can be used as
a flexible way to add a variety of elements into a post’s
content.

I think Shortcodes are an interesting paradigm because
they’re really a tool for power users. Instead of providing a
UI to browse and choose elements for something like an image
gallery, they allow a savvy editor to quickly write a tag
that will construct a gallery using numerical ID values.

I don’t think this is a tool that most Drupal sites will
need, but it could be a really good way for experienced
WordPress teams to feel more at home when starting to work
with Drupal.