Title: URL Parameter Shortcode
Author: Joe Hall
Published: <strong>October 1, 2014</strong>
Last modified: October 1, 2014

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# URL Parameter Shortcode

 By [Joe Hall](https://profiles.wordpress.org/redbmedia/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/url-parameter-shortcode.zip)

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 * [Reviews](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/url-parameter-shortcode/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/url-parameter-shortcode/#installation)
 * [Development](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/url-parameter-shortcode/#developers)

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## Description

A shortcode to display the value of a parameter in a URL query string. Lets say 
that you have a URL like so: http://joehall.me/thank/?fname=John and you want to
print the value for “fname” in the text of the page. Then all you need to do is 
install this plugin and use the following shortcode where ever you’d like to print
that value: [parameters q=”fname”]

## Installation

 1. Upload the directory: `/parameters-shortcode/` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory.
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“URL Parameter Shortcode” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Joe Hall ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/redbmedia/)

[Translate “URL Parameter Shortcode” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/url-parameter-shortcode)

### Interested in development?

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

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * First stable version.

## Meta

 *  Version **1**
 *  Last updated **12 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.5 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.0.38**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/url-parameter-shortcode/)
 * Tags
 * [parameter](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/parameter/)[query](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/query/)
   [shortcode](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/shortcode/)[url](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/url/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://twd.wordpress.org/plugins/url-parameter-shortcode/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Joe Hall ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/redbmedia/)

## Support

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