Custom Shortcodes removed with update

[metadiv]

I am running a site that uses the shortcodes plugin and I have created a few custom shortcodes in the /user/plugins/shortcode-core/shortcodes/ folder.

But every time I update the plugin they are removed. I have backups which I can replace the missing files with but is there a way to create a folder outside of the plugin directory (either in a user/theme/myCustomTheme/ or directly in the user/ folder) that can be read by the plugin but not updated (thus removing any custom contents)?

[rhukster]

You cannot put custom code in an existing plugin. Any update will simply overwrite your edits/additions.

You could simply duplicate an existing simple shortcode plugin like Owl Carousel (https://github.com/getgrav/grav-plugin-shortcode-owl-carousel) and use that to house your custom plugins.

I'm going to look at adding this functionality to the core plugin.

[metadiv]

Thanks for the reply. For the moment I can continue to manually re insert my shortcodes. But this is a company site that I might not always be in charge of and it would be nice to future proof it. if the shortcode-core could just look for a folder called /user/shotcodes/ that would be amazingly simple and robust in the spirit of Grav's file inheritance?

[rhukster]

Ok, added for next release.