shortcodes – style them or change/remove the square brackets?

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I sometimes use for the clients, plugins that are based on wordpress shortcodes,they do offer a lot of options for the clients to play with like adding tabs galleries and so on.

But I see that the appearance of the shortcode itself is still a bit confusing to them.
so is there a way to customize them like instead of content here...

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it will be something like : open gallery... end of gallery and with out the square brackets?

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  1. While I am sure that this is theoritically possible, I am going to say “No, not really”.

    If you look at the source, you can see that those brackets are hard-coded into a very complicated regex. I see no filters that will let you change that.

    The only reasonable way to approach this that I can think of would be:

    1. To remove the default shortcode system using
      remove_filter('do_shortcode','the_content');
    2. Add your own shortcode system

    This, of course, will break any plugin supplied shortcodes as well as the core ones. So the other option would be to:

    1. Add your own “wrapper” that converts whatever pattern you want to
      use into standard shortcodes
    2. And run do_shortcode on the result before returning the result

    I think you should be able to preserve the functionality of Core and Plugin shortcodes as well as add your own pattern, but the regex you are needing is complex especially given the pattern you require.

    Either option is far more code than I have time to address, not to mention the debugging that would be involved.