Integrating external content into your website

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Media library
• Shortcode

Your website is obviously not an isolated island on the web, and you will constantly refer to or integrate content from other sources. Images, videos, maps, plugin features, etc.

Media library

Use your media library to upload all the images and documents (such as PDFs) that you will use on your website!

For sounds and videos, their size would unnecessarily slow down your site. Leave them hosted on specialized platforms (YouTube, Deezer, Spotify, SoundCloud, etc.). You can integrate them into your website by pasting their link into the Text section of your block editors.

For videos, you have a block whose function is precisely to display a video correctly on the site!

Shortcode

Shortcode is another element that is regularly used to display plugin features, for example.

There are two ways to insert it into your page:

Method 1 : Paste the shortcode into a block editor (any block, but usually the Editor block)

• Copy the shortcode where it is provided
• In your block editor, go to the Text tab, which is the coded version of what you see in Visual.
• Paste the shortcode where you want it and save. It is important that this shortcode is enclosed in square brackets: [ MY SHORTCODE ]. They look like rectangular brackets.
• On a PC: On most keyboards, hold down Shift + Alt + (opening or closing parenthesis) or Alt G + (opening or closing parenthesis).
• On a Mac: Hold down Option + Alt + 5 + (opening parenthesis) or ° + (closing parenthesis) simultaneously.

Method 2 : Using the Shortcode block

To add a Shortcode block

• Click on the Add a block button, or on the + at the top left of the page.

• Edit the block and paste the shortcode you received into the field indicated.