[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #11394: Image shortcode

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#11394: Image shortcode
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 Reporter:  caesarsgrunt     |       Owner:                          
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new                     
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  3.1                     
Component:  Media            |     Version:  2.9                     
 Severity:  normal           |    Keywords:  needs-patch dev-feedback
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Comment(by mikeschinkel):

 Replying to [comment:42 caesarsgrunt]:
 > Replying to [comment:41 mikeschinkel]:
 > > As for an option to disable shortcodes, I don't think that is really a
 viable option considering how many things can be done with shortcodes from
 plugins.  Disabling them stunts far too much available functionality.
 > I just meant an option (a wp-config.php constant) to disable this
 particular shortcode, so that for people like Otto who don't like it, they
 can keep the current behaviour.

 Reading Otto's latest comments "I don't like shortcodes" it comes down to
 a philosophy of what WP should be doing.  I actually am agnostic about
 shortcodes, but I think we should either do them right or not at all.  I
 think giving options to turn them off simple avoids doing them right.

 So it comes down to this: the people who control the direction of
 WordPress should decide if shortcodes are core to WP or not. If they
 '''are''' core then go full force to make them fully usable in WP and let
 Otto just suck it up.  If they are '''not''' going to be core then mark
 them as deprecated, transition to get rid of them and provide an alternate
 solution to meet the same need.

 But this straddling the fence, providing tacit acknowledgement of them
 while fighting them in the same breath is simply not helpful. At least
 IMHO. ;-)

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