I found Kyle Getsons shortcode generator (http://getson.info/shortcode-generator/) plugin for WordPress and thought it was so simple and exactly what I needed, but I found myself bouncing back and forth to remember the shortcodes… so I searched on the interweb and found Kevin Chard’s snippet at http://wpsnipp.com/index.php/functions-php/update-automatically-create-media_buttons-for-shortcode-selection/ to incorporate a shortcode dropdown into the editor.  I modified Kevin’s code to work with Kyles and made it a plug-in.

It has only been tested on WordPress 3.2.1 and 3.1.4 but is simple enough where it should work on recent installations.

 

To Install Kyle’s Shortcode Generator:

  1. Download the shortcode Generator Plugin
  2. Unzip and upload into your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
  3. Activate the plugin

To Install  Shortcode Generator Menu Dropdown:

  1. Download the Shortcode Generator Menu Dropdown
  2. Unzip and upload into your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
  3. Activate the plugin