But never mind all that. I made my shortcode<\/a> by putting these four lines of code in my functions.php<\/a> file:<\/p>\n All I had to do to include it in my post was this: Doing that generates a link to Daily Light on the Daily Path<\/i> that is embedded with my Amazon affiliate stuff, like this: Daily Light on the Daily Path<\/a> Very slick!<\/b> And I don’t need to get all that affiliate code every time I want to link to that book. I just have to put To see the results live…and for hope in the middle of trouble…go to The Day of Trouble<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Up until early this morning, I’ve resisted using shortcodes in my WordPress blogs. But this morning I built my very own first custom shortcode. Sure, it’s simple and short and probably painfully plain. So? I plunked it in my active theme’s functions.php file and it works great! I know that by putting it there I’m … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[993,969,716],"class_list":["post-2536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-stuff","tag-blogging","tag-code","tag-wordpress"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-EU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\r\nfunction dlink(){\r\n\treturn '<a href="http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/158134435X?ie=UTF8&tag=anabaptistbookst&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=158134435X">Daily Light on the Daily Path<\/a><img src="http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=anabaptistbookst&l=as2&o=1&a=158134435X" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" \/>';\r\n}\r\nadd_shortcode('DLlink', 'dlink');\r\n<\/pre>\n[DLlink]<\/code>.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=anabaptistbookst&l=as2&o=1&a=158134435X\")
[DLlink]<\/code> wherever I want that link to appear.<\/p>\n