Title: Simple Quick Tags
Author: Shawn Hayes
Published: <strong>October 29, 2014</strong>
Last modified: June 13, 2015

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This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Simple Quick Tags

 By [Shawn Hayes](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sharewebdesign/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/simple-quick-tags.1.1.zip)

 * [Details](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-quick-tags/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-quick-tags/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-quick-tags/#installation)
 * [Development](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-quick-tags/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-quick-tags/)

## Description

This plugin allows you to add useful quicktag buttons to the Text (HTML) mode of
the WordPress WYSIWYG editor. There is a settings page to choose from a list of 
quicktags you would like to use.

Currently on the list of options are: p, br, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, pb

This plugin was written by Shawn Hayes at [Share Web Design](http://sharewebdesign.com/)
to make it easier to implement useful quicktag buttons. If you have any questions
please feel free to visit our contact page at [Contact Us](http://sharewebdesign.com/contact-us)
or post a question in the support area at [WordPress.org](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-quick-tags).

## Screenshots

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## Installation

 1. Unzip into your /wp-content/plugins/ directory. If you’re uploading it make sure
    to upload the top-level folder. Don’t just upload all the php files and put them
    in /wp-content/plugins/.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Go to the settings page and choose which QuickTags you would like to add to the
    Text (HTML) mode of the WordPress editor.
 4. Be sure to hit the “Save Settings” button after you have checked the boxes on the
    settings page.

You’re done!

## FAQ

We don’t have any FAQs yet but please feel free to contact us with any questions
you may have.

## Reviews

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### 󠀁[Simple and a great help](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-and-a-great-help/)󠁿

 [hommealone](https://profiles.wordpress.org/hommealone/) February 11, 2017

Very helpful little plugin. Thanks.

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## Contributors & Developers

“Simple Quick Tags” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Shawn Hayes ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sharewebdesign/)

[Translate “Simple Quick Tags” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/simple-quick-tags)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-quick-tags/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/simple-quick-tags/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/simple-quick-tags/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/simple-quick-tags/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.1

Added $table_name = $wpdb->base_prefix . ‘options’; and now using $table_name rather
than just using wp_options.

#### 1.0

Public Release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.3 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.2.39**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-quick-tags/)
 * Tags
 * [html](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/html/)[quicktags](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/quicktags/)
   [text editor](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/text-editor/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/simple-quick-tags/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ Shawn Hayes ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/sharewebdesign/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-quick-tags/)

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