Reply To: Adding Shortcodes To The Theme

We don’t really add shortcodes to themes, mainly because of the issues you would run into if you switched your theme. Here is a well known post in the WordPress community that explains what I’m talking about – http://justintadlock.com/archives/2011/05/02/dealing-with-shortcode-madness ….(you may already know about this, I just wanted to add it just in case)

It’s actually better to use a plugin when adding shortcodes. I did a quick Google search and came across a few –

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/genesis-shortcodes/

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/column-shortcodes-for-genesis/

If you want to create your own shortcodes, you could take a look at any of these tutorials, just make sure you keep the code that you create separate or have it organized in a way that you can easily transfer it if you ever want to change your theme.