v1.8.2 – 2026/05/18
* Tweak: Power Shortcodes, reduced the size of WordPress autoloaded options
* Tweak: Performance, the term, ACF, and ACPT shortcodes now reuse the WordPress term cache instead of running an extra database query on every term lookup. Most visible on pages that resolve many terms, for example inside loops
* Tweak: Performance, post loops now prime the WordPress post cache for ID lists, and {post:terms} reuses the object term cache instead of querying terms on every call
* Minor Fixes
v1.8.1 – 2026/03/26
* Fix: Fatal error on certain Elementor versions
v1.8.0 – 2026/03/25
* New: Elementor “Paragraph with Dynamic Shortcodes” widget for V4 Atomic Widgets
* New: Elementor “Text Editor with Dynamic Shortcodes” widget for classic Elementor
* Tweak: Elementor v4 compatibility, dynamic tags now work correctly with Atomic Widgets
* Minor Fixes
v1.7.2 – 2026/03/09
* Fix: PHP fatal error that could occur on pages using WPBakery
* Minor Fixes
v1.7.1 – 2025/12/03
* Tweak: Power Shortcodes, the @value! keyarg is now automatically applied if the power shortcode contains only one top-level shortcode and nothing else. This could be a breaking change in some rare cases.
* Minor Fixes
v1.7.0 – 2025/11/12
* New: integration with Advanced Custom Post Types (ACPT) plugin, added {acpt:}, {acpt-loop:}, {acpt-row:} shortcodes
* Tweak: Elementor, values of dynamic tags containing CSS were not rendered correctly due to Elementor’s performance optimizations
* Minor Fixes
v1.6.1 – 2025/10/15
* New UI for Power Shortcodes: added a search bar on the right to filter shortcodes, global expand/collapse buttons, collapsible design with summary view, toast notifications for success and error messages, and visual highlights for errors and new items.
v1.6.0 – 2025/09/24
* New: Add support for WPBakery Page Builder
* Minor Fixes
v1.5.16 – 2025/09/17
* Tweak: Added new has-var shortcode for checking if a Dynamic Shortcodes variable is defined
* Tweak: The get shortcode now returns null for missing variables and emits a warning instead of throwing an error
* Tweak: added {post:children} to retrieve the children
* Minor Fixes
v1.5.15 – 2025/08/01
* Tweak: ACF WYSIWYG fields were always formatted as specified by ACF. Now you can avoid this by using `@format=false`, if formatting causes issues
v1.5.14 – 2025/07/17
* Fix: WordPress incorrectly reporting that a new version is available
v1.5.13 – 2025/07/16
* Fix: Remove some PHP Warnings
* Minor Fixes
v1.5.12 – 2025/06/03
* Fix: Fixed a bug that was causing too many HTTP requests when checking for plugin updates
* Minor Fixes
v1.5.11 – 2025/05/15
* New: ability to rollback to a previous version
* Tweak: added compatibility with WP-CLI. Here the list commands https://dnmc.ooo/dsh-wpcli
* Tweak: added {term:group}, {term:taxonomy-id}, {term:parent}
* Fix: solved an error when NULL is passed to a date
* Minor Fixes
v1.5.10 – 2025/04/04
* Tweak: It was not possible to access post metas in password protected posts, now it is within Power Shortcodes
* Minor Fixes
v1.5.9 – 2025/02/06
* Fix: Issue in Dynamic Content for Elementor integration, with the Dynamic Tag Text used with form fields
* Minor Fixes
v1.5.8 – 2024/10/30
* Tweak: ACF WYSIWYG Editor fields were not properly formatted by default
* Tweak: Floating point numbers can now be used without quotes {+:1 0.5} instead of {+:1 ‘0.5’}
* Fix: Date shortcode was not working with Unix timestamps
* Fix: Shortcodes arguments that starts with a number need to be quoted (good: ‘3d’, bad: 3d). Parsing will now fail in these cases. Previously the result was a bad parse.
* Minor Fixes
v1.5.7 – 2024/09/02
* Notice: In the Date Shortcode input dates with the format ‘m/d/Y g:i a’ will now be parsed as ‘d/m/Y g:i a’ (day and month swapped)
* Tweak: Add regex-match shortcode for checking regex patterns on strings
* Tweak: added {post:type-label-plural}
* Fix: In the Date Shortcode dates coming from an ACF field might have the day and month swapped, check the notice above
* Minor Fixes
v1.5.6 – 2024/08/23
* Fix: PHP error with acf shortcode used inside a date shortcode in some cases
v1.5.5 – 2024/08/23
* Tweak: You can now disable showing Dynamic Shortcodes errors and warnings in the frontend
* Fix: date with the @local keyarg would return a time with wrong offset if the current DST is different than that of the given timestamp
v1.5.4 – 2024/08/20
* New: WordPress Shortcode `dsh` gives the ability to use Dynamic Shortcodes in all those places that are not yet supported directly but where WordPress Shortcodes work
* Tweak: Added a built in filter ‘shuffle’, similar to PHP shuffle function , but that can work as a filter
* Tweak: Date Shortcode, add local keyarg for dates set in local time as is the case for ACF field. For ACF field this option will be automatic.
* Minor Fixes
v1.5.3 – 2024/08/13
* Fix: Archive Shortcode was not working in some cases
v1.5.2 – 2024/08/09
* Fix: Build URL Shortcode had a sanitization issue when used together with the API Shortcode
v1.5.1 – 2024/08/09
* Fix: PHP warning with the Term shortcode with some Taxonomy types
* Fix: Wrong result for the Term shortcode in the Bricks Terms Query in some cases
v1.5.0 – 2024/08/07
* New: Archive shortcode for retrieving the archive title, prefix, and description
* New: API Dynamic Shortcode for making remote requests
* Tweak: The Term Dynamic Shortcode shortcode now works inside Bricks Term loops
* Fix: In an term archive page the acf shortcode for terms will work without specifying the term id
* Minor Fixes
v1.4.1 – 2024/07/25
* Fix: Some Bricks Dynamic Data types were not being expanded in some contexts
v1.4.0 – 2024/07/24
* New: Add support for the Bricks Builder
* New: Add expand! global keyarg for expanding shortcodes in the result of a shortcode, you should only use this with trusted data
* Tweak: post can now retrieve the CPT label with type-label
* Tweak: you can use {acf-row:index} to get the current row index in ACF loops
* Minor Fixes
v1.3.8 – 2024/07/12
* Fix: {woo:attributes} didn’t work for Simple Products
* Fix: {media:image} and {media:url} didn’t work with full size
* Minor Fixes
v1.3.7 – 2024/06/26
* Tweak: You can now easily access the last element of an array with the filter `||last`, the penultimate with `||last-1` etc.
* Tweak: wp-shortcode now also handles WordPress shortcodes that accept content
* Tweak: added {media:permalink}
* Fix: {woo:attributes} retrieved only the attributes used in variations. Now it retrieves all of them.
* Minor Fixes
v1.3.6 – 2024/06/13
* Tweak: added {user:is-logged-in}
* Tweak: now {post:content} retrieve the original content, not processed by PHP filters. {post:content-rendered} retrieves the content rendered.
* Minor Fixes
v1.3.5 – 2024/06/07
* Fix: Auto updates not working in some cases
* Minor Fixes
v1.3.4 – 2024/06/03
* Fix: Minor issue with wp-shortcode
v1.3.3 – 2024/06/03
* New: Dynamic Shortcode wp-shortcode for expanding WordPress Shortcodes and mixing them with Dynamic Shortcodes
* Fix: {woo:attributes} didn’t retrieve the value in some cases
* Minor Fixes
v1.3.2 – 2024/05/29
* Tweak: Date shortcode, add keyargs @year, @month etc. for quickly fetching part of a date
* Fix: solved a Fatal Error on the demo in some cases
* Fix: In the Elementor Editor, while modifying an Elementor Taxonomy Loop template, the term Dynamic Shortcode did not display the result
* Minor Fixes
v1.3.1 – 2024/05/15
* Fix: various issues with the demo shortcodes
* Fix: acf-row shortcode is missing error
* Minor Fixes
v1.3.0 – 2024/05/13
* New: Incoming compatibility with Dynamic Content For Elementor
* New: Dynamic Shortcodes Collection in the WordPress dashboard
* Tweak: the Term shortcode is now compatible with Elementor Taxonomy Loops
* Tweak: Add shortcodes {post:content} and {post:post_content} (unfiltered)
* Tweak: Add shortcodes {media:file-path} and {media:image} (images only)
* Tweak: Add {acf-row:layout} shortcode for retrieving the ACF Flexible Content layout in a loop
* Tweak: add {user:avatar-url} and {user:avatar}
* Minor Fixes
v1.2.1 – 2024/03/08
* Fix: Fatal error in some cases with PHP < v8
v1.2.0 – 2024/03/07
* New: Elementor Dynamic Tag Dynamic Shortcodes Gallery
* New: the acf-loop Dynamic Shortcode now supports ACF Relationship fields
* New: the acf Dynamic Shortcode now supports the @setting keyarg for fetching the ACF fields settings
* Tweak: acf Dynamic Shortcode, the @sub keyarg is no longer needed as sub fields will be auto-detected
* Fix: Error on the dashboard when uninstalling the plugin
* Minor Fixes
v1.1.7 – 2024/02/14
* Tweak: Add set-default Dynamic Shortcode, it will initialize a global variable with a value only if it’s not already initialized.
* Fix: Safe tags (like HTML anchors) were incorrectly escaped in some situations
* Fix: Array Access on bools, integers or null will return null, same as PHP and versions before 1.1.4. But you will still get a PHP warning.
* Minor Fixes
v1.1.6 – 2024/02/08
* Tweak: Query Dynamic Shortcode, add woo-products query type
* Tweak: Add examples on using the Loop Dynamic Shortcode in the Demos
* Fix: elementor-template fatal error when using templates of type other than Loop Item or Section
* Minor Fixes
v1.1.5 – 2024/02/01
* Fix: Keyargs in the Array Dynamic Shortcodes were not evaluated and could only be literal values, so key=42 worked, but not key=$value
* Minor Fixes
v1.1.4 – 2024/01/31
* Tweak: Media Dynamic Shortcode, add media:width and media:height for image Media
* Fix: trying to use the array access filter (`||`) with an object resulted in a PHP Error instead of a normal Dynamic Shortcode usage error
* Minor Fixes
v1.1.2 – 2024/01/24
* Tweak: The Media Dynamic Shortcode can now fetch the Alternative Text with {media:alt-text}
v1.1.1 – 2024/01/23
* Fix: PHP Error in the new Elementor Template
v1.1.0 – 2024/01/23
* New: Loop (loop) Dynamic Shortcode, a loop that automatically set the current post
* New: Elementor Template (elementor-template) Dynamic Shortcode, for rendering an elementor template given its id
* Tweak: You can now use the $var syntax instead of {get:var} when inside a dynamic shortcode
* Fix: PHP warning sometimes appearing with the woo dynamic shortcode and WP_DEBUG on
* Minor Fixes
v1.0.2 – 2024/01/09
* Fix: Issues with fetching of JetEngine, Metabox and Pods fields.
* Minor Fixes
v1.0.1 – 2023/12/21
* Tweak: A top level Dynamic Shortcode returning an array would result in the string “Array”, now it display an error with information on how to handle arrays
* Fix: One could use {woo:attributes} on a Simple WooCommerce Product, resulting in an error
* Minor Fixes
v1.0 – 2023/12/18
* Dynamic Shortcodes 1.0 release 🚀
* Tweak: Power Shortcodes, reduced the size of WordPress autoloaded options
* Tweak: Performance, the term, ACF, and ACPT shortcodes now reuse the WordPress term cache instead of running an extra database query on every term lookup. Most visible on pages that resolve many terms, for example inside loops
* Tweak: Performance, post loops now prime the WordPress post cache for ID lists, and {post:terms} reuses the object term cache instead of querying terms on every call
* Minor Fixes
v1.8.1 – 2026/03/26
* Fix: Fatal error on certain Elementor versions
v1.8.0 – 2026/03/25
* New: Elementor “Paragraph with Dynamic Shortcodes” widget for V4 Atomic Widgets
* New: Elementor “Text Editor with Dynamic Shortcodes” widget for classic Elementor
* Tweak: Elementor v4 compatibility, dynamic tags now work correctly with Atomic Widgets
* Minor Fixes
v1.7.2 – 2026/03/09
* Fix: PHP fatal error that could occur on pages using WPBakery
* Minor Fixes
v1.7.1 – 2025/12/03
* Tweak: Power Shortcodes, the @value! keyarg is now automatically applied if the power shortcode contains only one top-level shortcode and nothing else. This could be a breaking change in some rare cases.
* Minor Fixes
v1.7.0 – 2025/11/12
* New: integration with Advanced Custom Post Types (ACPT) plugin, added {acpt:}, {acpt-loop:}, {acpt-row:} shortcodes
* Tweak: Elementor, values of dynamic tags containing CSS were not rendered correctly due to Elementor’s performance optimizations
* Minor Fixes
v1.6.1 – 2025/10/15
* New UI for Power Shortcodes: added a search bar on the right to filter shortcodes, global expand/collapse buttons, collapsible design with summary view, toast notifications for success and error messages, and visual highlights for errors and new items.
v1.6.0 – 2025/09/24
* New: Add support for WPBakery Page Builder
* Minor Fixes
v1.5.16 – 2025/09/17
* Tweak: Added new has-var shortcode for checking if a Dynamic Shortcodes variable is defined
* Tweak: The get shortcode now returns null for missing variables and emits a warning instead of throwing an error
* Tweak: added {post:children} to retrieve the children
* Minor Fixes
v1.5.15 – 2025/08/01
* Tweak: ACF WYSIWYG fields were always formatted as specified by ACF. Now you can avoid this by using `@format=false`, if formatting causes issues
v1.5.14 – 2025/07/17
* Fix: WordPress incorrectly reporting that a new version is available
v1.5.13 – 2025/07/16
* Fix: Remove some PHP Warnings
* Minor Fixes
v1.5.12 – 2025/06/03
* Fix: Fixed a bug that was causing too many HTTP requests when checking for plugin updates
* Minor Fixes
v1.5.11 – 2025/05/15
* New: ability to rollback to a previous version
* Tweak: added compatibility with WP-CLI. Here the list commands https://dnmc.ooo/dsh-wpcli
* Tweak: added {term:group}, {term:taxonomy-id}, {term:parent}
* Fix: solved an error when NULL is passed to a date
* Minor Fixes
v1.5.10 – 2025/04/04
* Tweak: It was not possible to access post metas in password protected posts, now it is within Power Shortcodes
* Minor Fixes
v1.5.9 – 2025/02/06
* Fix: Issue in Dynamic Content for Elementor integration, with the Dynamic Tag Text used with form fields
* Minor Fixes
v1.5.8 – 2024/10/30
* Tweak: ACF WYSIWYG Editor fields were not properly formatted by default
* Tweak: Floating point numbers can now be used without quotes {+:1 0.5} instead of {+:1 ‘0.5’}
* Fix: Date shortcode was not working with Unix timestamps
* Fix: Shortcodes arguments that starts with a number need to be quoted (good: ‘3d’, bad: 3d). Parsing will now fail in these cases. Previously the result was a bad parse.
* Minor Fixes
v1.5.7 – 2024/09/02
* Notice: In the Date Shortcode input dates with the format ‘m/d/Y g:i a’ will now be parsed as ‘d/m/Y g:i a’ (day and month swapped)
* Tweak: Add regex-match shortcode for checking regex patterns on strings
* Tweak: added {post:type-label-plural}
* Fix: In the Date Shortcode dates coming from an ACF field might have the day and month swapped, check the notice above
* Minor Fixes
v1.5.6 – 2024/08/23
* Fix: PHP error with acf shortcode used inside a date shortcode in some cases
v1.5.5 – 2024/08/23
* Tweak: You can now disable showing Dynamic Shortcodes errors and warnings in the frontend
* Fix: date with the @local keyarg would return a time with wrong offset if the current DST is different than that of the given timestamp
v1.5.4 – 2024/08/20
* New: WordPress Shortcode `dsh` gives the ability to use Dynamic Shortcodes in all those places that are not yet supported directly but where WordPress Shortcodes work
* Tweak: Added a built in filter ‘shuffle’, similar to PHP shuffle function , but that can work as a filter
* Tweak: Date Shortcode, add local keyarg for dates set in local time as is the case for ACF field. For ACF field this option will be automatic.
* Minor Fixes
v1.5.3 – 2024/08/13
* Fix: Archive Shortcode was not working in some cases
v1.5.2 – 2024/08/09
* Fix: Build URL Shortcode had a sanitization issue when used together with the API Shortcode
v1.5.1 – 2024/08/09
* Fix: PHP warning with the Term shortcode with some Taxonomy types
* Fix: Wrong result for the Term shortcode in the Bricks Terms Query in some cases
v1.5.0 – 2024/08/07
* New: Archive shortcode for retrieving the archive title, prefix, and description
* New: API Dynamic Shortcode for making remote requests
* Tweak: The Term Dynamic Shortcode shortcode now works inside Bricks Term loops
* Fix: In an term archive page the acf shortcode for terms will work without specifying the term id
* Minor Fixes
v1.4.1 – 2024/07/25
* Fix: Some Bricks Dynamic Data types were not being expanded in some contexts
v1.4.0 – 2024/07/24
* New: Add support for the Bricks Builder
* New: Add expand! global keyarg for expanding shortcodes in the result of a shortcode, you should only use this with trusted data
* Tweak: post can now retrieve the CPT label with type-label
* Tweak: you can use {acf-row:index} to get the current row index in ACF loops
* Minor Fixes
v1.3.8 – 2024/07/12
* Fix: {woo:attributes} didn’t work for Simple Products
* Fix: {media:image} and {media:url} didn’t work with full size
* Minor Fixes
v1.3.7 – 2024/06/26
* Tweak: You can now easily access the last element of an array with the filter `||last`, the penultimate with `||last-1` etc.
* Tweak: wp-shortcode now also handles WordPress shortcodes that accept content
* Tweak: added {media:permalink}
* Fix: {woo:attributes} retrieved only the attributes used in variations. Now it retrieves all of them.
* Minor Fixes
v1.3.6 – 2024/06/13
* Tweak: added {user:is-logged-in}
* Tweak: now {post:content} retrieve the original content, not processed by PHP filters. {post:content-rendered} retrieves the content rendered.
* Minor Fixes
v1.3.5 – 2024/06/07
* Fix: Auto updates not working in some cases
* Minor Fixes
v1.3.4 – 2024/06/03
* Fix: Minor issue with wp-shortcode
v1.3.3 – 2024/06/03
* New: Dynamic Shortcode wp-shortcode for expanding WordPress Shortcodes and mixing them with Dynamic Shortcodes
* Fix: {woo:attributes} didn’t retrieve the value in some cases
* Minor Fixes
v1.3.2 – 2024/05/29
* Tweak: Date shortcode, add keyargs @year, @month etc. for quickly fetching part of a date
* Fix: solved a Fatal Error on the demo in some cases
* Fix: In the Elementor Editor, while modifying an Elementor Taxonomy Loop template, the term Dynamic Shortcode did not display the result
* Minor Fixes
v1.3.1 – 2024/05/15
* Fix: various issues with the demo shortcodes
* Fix: acf-row shortcode is missing error
* Minor Fixes
v1.3.0 – 2024/05/13
* New: Incoming compatibility with Dynamic Content For Elementor
* New: Dynamic Shortcodes Collection in the WordPress dashboard
* Tweak: the Term shortcode is now compatible with Elementor Taxonomy Loops
* Tweak: Add shortcodes {post:content} and {post:post_content} (unfiltered)
* Tweak: Add shortcodes {media:file-path} and {media:image} (images only)
* Tweak: Add {acf-row:layout} shortcode for retrieving the ACF Flexible Content layout in a loop
* Tweak: add {user:avatar-url} and {user:avatar}
* Minor Fixes
v1.2.1 – 2024/03/08
* Fix: Fatal error in some cases with PHP < v8
v1.2.0 – 2024/03/07
* New: Elementor Dynamic Tag Dynamic Shortcodes Gallery
* New: the acf-loop Dynamic Shortcode now supports ACF Relationship fields
* New: the acf Dynamic Shortcode now supports the @setting keyarg for fetching the ACF fields settings
* Tweak: acf Dynamic Shortcode, the @sub keyarg is no longer needed as sub fields will be auto-detected
* Fix: Error on the dashboard when uninstalling the plugin
* Minor Fixes
v1.1.7 – 2024/02/14
* Tweak: Add set-default Dynamic Shortcode, it will initialize a global variable with a value only if it’s not already initialized.
* Fix: Safe tags (like HTML anchors) were incorrectly escaped in some situations
* Fix: Array Access on bools, integers or null will return null, same as PHP and versions before 1.1.4. But you will still get a PHP warning.
* Minor Fixes
v1.1.6 – 2024/02/08
* Tweak: Query Dynamic Shortcode, add woo-products query type
* Tweak: Add examples on using the Loop Dynamic Shortcode in the Demos
* Fix: elementor-template fatal error when using templates of type other than Loop Item or Section
* Minor Fixes
v1.1.5 – 2024/02/01
* Fix: Keyargs in the Array Dynamic Shortcodes were not evaluated and could only be literal values, so key=42 worked, but not key=$value
* Minor Fixes
v1.1.4 – 2024/01/31
* Tweak: Media Dynamic Shortcode, add media:width and media:height for image Media
* Fix: trying to use the array access filter (`||`) with an object resulted in a PHP Error instead of a normal Dynamic Shortcode usage error
* Minor Fixes
v1.1.2 – 2024/01/24
* Tweak: The Media Dynamic Shortcode can now fetch the Alternative Text with {media:alt-text}
v1.1.1 – 2024/01/23
* Fix: PHP Error in the new Elementor Template
v1.1.0 – 2024/01/23
* New: Loop (loop) Dynamic Shortcode, a loop that automatically set the current post
* New: Elementor Template (elementor-template) Dynamic Shortcode, for rendering an elementor template given its id
* Tweak: You can now use the $var syntax instead of {get:var} when inside a dynamic shortcode
* Fix: PHP warning sometimes appearing with the woo dynamic shortcode and WP_DEBUG on
* Minor Fixes
v1.0.2 – 2024/01/09
* Fix: Issues with fetching of JetEngine, Metabox and Pods fields.
* Minor Fixes
v1.0.1 – 2023/12/21
* Tweak: A top level Dynamic Shortcode returning an array would result in the string “Array”, now it display an error with information on how to handle arrays
* Fix: One could use {woo:attributes} on a Simple WooCommerce Product, resulting in an error
* Minor Fixes
v1.0 – 2023/12/18
* Dynamic Shortcodes 1.0 release 🚀