Install Shortcodes

1. Activate Cointacted Social Terminal and the plugin that registers the shortcode you intend to expose.
2. Open Plugins → Add Plugin → Upload Plugin, upload cointacted-shortcodes.zip, and activate it.
3. Open Cointacted → Shortcodes and create one test mapping. Choose a unique terminal command and an already registered shortcode tag; do not accept a shortcode tag from terminal input.
4. Keep user arguments disabled for the first test. Enter only fixed default attributes required by the selected shortcode.
5. Choose the narrowest visibility policy that matches the shortcode's data. Save the mapping.
6. Open the Terminal as a user who should have access and confirm the command appears in help. Run it and verify the sanitized output.
7. Repeat as a user who must not have access. The command must be absent from help and rejected if entered directly.

Decide whether a shortcode is suitable

Good mappings return compact text, a predictable list, or a small table. Do not map payment forms, account forms, password controls, script-heavy widgets, nonce-bearing actions, or arbitrary shortcode containers. The Terminal is not a complete WordPress page renderer, and its output sanitizer deliberately removes unsafe interactive markup.

Before allowing arguments, document the shortcode's accepted attributes and test empty, malformed, repeated, oversized, and unauthorized values. Prefer multiple fixed commands over one broad user-controlled mapping when the source shortcode has sensitive modes.

Requirements

Cointacted Social Terminal is required.

Updates should be installed from a verified package while preserving the plugin slug cointacted-shortcodes.

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