Shorthand Connect
by Shorthand · WordPress.org page · Website
Shorthand Connect has 100+ active installs on WordPress.org and 11,098 downloads all time. We have tracked it since September 4, 2026; download trends appear after 30 days of data. The last update was on April 16, 2026, tested up to WordPress 6.9.7.
Shorthand Connect at a glance
Is Shorthand Connect well maintained?
Features
The feature list from the plugin's own readme on WordPress.org, trimmed to the essentials.
- Firstly make sure that your www directory is owned by the correct user
- In your wp-config.php file, add define('FS_CHMOD_DIR', 0777 )
- Contact [email protected] and [email protected] for further support and feedback
- Some WP Plugins can aggressively cache or control how content is displayed at the theme-level; check page templates to ensure nothing is conflicting
Shorthand Connect reviews and ratings
2 reviews on WordPress.org, with the most recent ones as their authors posted them.
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It does what it has to do
Include easily a Shorthand Story to wordpress. It could have more customization options, but it does the job. Keep in mind, the plugin will download the content of the story to your wordpress, so if you don't have enough memory, wordpress will crash while trying to update/publish the story
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Basic functionality, unusable in practical terms
In theory this would be a great plugin for letting clients drop their Shorthand stories into their own websites rather than manually uploading the files to the server. However, there are a number of problems with the plugin that make it basically unusable in its current form. The main one is that the default template for a Shorthand story includes get_header() and get_footer(), and drops the Shorthand story in using the_content(). This means that what should be a full-width design is actually crammed into the content area of a default template, however wide that is. The plugin seems to assume that get_header() and get_footer() don't include content wrapping tags, but that's not a helpful assumption. The plugin also drops the entirety of its HTML code into the_content() including the <title> tag and <meta> tags such as viewport, Open Graph, Twitter and charset. That's a strange decision given that the body tag isn't written out in that code. Either you assume that the body tag hasn't been written and include the meta tags, or you write the body tag yourself. This wouldn't matter so much if you were able to override the default template by using a single-shorthand_story.php template file in your theme, but this doesn't override the template provided by the plugin, so your choice is to edit the plugin files - which would get overwritten by any updates - or use the default template. Finally, even if you do edit the template file in the plugin just to drop in the Shorthand content, the content doesn't render correctly for some reason - there are missing slides which seem to be overlaid by other ones. It also tries to load non-existent web fonts from the shorthand directory, meaning that the fonts aren't rendered correctly. Perhaps there are ways around this, but that's difficult to tell because Shorthand haven't seen fit to write any documentation on how to use the plugin here in the plugin directory and just direct you to their support email addresses, which isn't accep
Adrian Toll
Details
This plugin provides a simple method for publishing and updating Shorthand stories directly inside of Wordpress.
The full description, screenshots and every review live on the WordPress.org page.
Tags
- api
- editor
- reports
- shorthand
- storytelling
- Version
- 1.3.35
- Last updated
- Apr 16, 2026
- First published
- Oct 27, 2016
- Requires WordPress
- 6.0
- Tested up to
- 6.9.7
- Requires PHP
- 7.0
- Pricing
- Free on WordPress.org
Shorthand Connect FAQ
What does Shorthand Connect do?
According to its WordPress.org readme, Shorthand Connect offers Firstly make sure that your www directory is owned by the correct user, In your wp-config.php file, add define('FS_CHMOD_DIR', 0777 ), Contact [email protected] and [email protected] for further support and feedback and Some WP Plugins can aggressively cache or control how content is displayed at the theme-level; check page templates to ensure nothing is conflicting.
How many active installs does Shorthand Connect have?
WordPress.org reports 100+ active installs for Shorthand Connect as of September 7, 2026.
Is Shorthand Connect still maintained?
Yes. The last release was on April 16, 2026 and it is tested up to WordPress 6.9.7.
Is Shorthand Connect free?
Shorthand Connect is free to install from WordPress.org. Many plugins also sell a paid version or add-ons.