Have you ever find yourself entering the same text in all of your posts? Often people do that such as asking people to subscribe to their feeds, retweet the post, share it on facebook etc. You can always use a simple tag to add it right after the content, or you can add that text as the default content in your WordPress post editor.
Simply open up your WordPress theme’s functions.php file and paste the following code within the PHP tags ofcourse.
add_filter( 'default_content', 'my_editor_content' );
function my_editor_content( $content ) {
$content = "If you like this post, then please consider retweeting it or sharing it on Facebook.";
return $content;
}
And you are done. Try to create a New Post, and you should see the new content there.
Update (January 24, 2013) – One of our users asked us how to add different content for different post type in the comments. The code below will show you how to add different default content in your WordPress post editor for each specific custom post type:
add_filter( 'default_content', 'my_editor_content', 10, 2 );
function my_editor_content( $content, $post ) {
switch( $post->post_type ) {
case 'sources':
$content = 'your content';
break;
case 'stories':
$content = 'your content';
break;
case 'pictures':
$content = 'your content';
break;
default:
$content = 'your default content';
break;
}
return $content;
}
Source: Justin Tadlock
Jose says
what if i want my default content to be a table with rows & columns on the Editor
WPBeginner Support says
We do not have a recommended method for that at the moment. For a close option for something similar, you could create a reusable block following our guide below:
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-create-a-reusable-block-in-wordpress/
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Mehedi Hassan says
But where the code will pasted. I cant paste the code in actual place in function.php. please help.
WPBeginner Support says
For this specific post, you would need to add it to your functions.php
Admin
ankit goyal says
How we can Add Default Content in woocommerce short description Editor
WPBeginner Support says
You would want to check with WooCommerce for their current method to do that
Admin
John M Brooks says
Any chance this will be updated for Gutenberg? As it stands, it currently adds the content to a “classic editor” block.
Regardless, I appreciate this post. Thank you.
WPBeginner Support says
We are in the process of going through different articles for Gutenberg/Block editor compatibility. We’ll be sure to take a look at this one
Admin
tuấn says
That code can add content before or bellow content admin?
Aaliyan Mehmood says
Thanks for this good tip. You made my work easy.
Thanks a lot.
Mark says
how can I make this appear in the end of each post instead of beginning
Jack says
I am not able to do it at the first place let alone at the beginning. Can you help guide me. Where exactly did you posted the code. The code is okay. Functions.php is okay., but placement of this is a challenge. Not able to figure out where to paste
David Keith says
Thanks! This worked brilliantly. *cheers!*
sp says
thanks 4 the post but i want little more like i want to add code content like a small code that i can use in all post and can edit some of its vale for each post, like i want some text in bold some coloured text one youtube embeded code where i can just change video link …please help me soon with the process
lammy says
how can i add default message to all my posts just immediately after post title
Amri says
can i get list tags or categories with this?
Dan Jones says
Hi,
Thanks for the code.
Is it possible to add custom text to a post so it’s stored within the post on publishing?
Thanks,
Dan
Grant Skinner says
I’ve used the code you gave in the first instance and it works great, thanks.
Q – How do I add hyper links on certain works like if I have a “Click Here” portion of text that links the user to a new page.
Any hel would be appreciated.
Krishna says
Would you please help me by telling how to do this…when admin add new product image in media and click on insert product button the uploaded image should be added in form of shortcode into post editor.
Suhail says
How can i add html tags like list in the content
Gopi says
What is that 10 and 2 represents?
WPBeginner Support says
Priority and number of arguments.
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Amita Sharma says
I need to add default content for specific template.
add_filter( ‘default_content’, ‘custom_editor_content’ );
function custom_editor_content( $content ) {
global $current_screen;
if ( $current_screen->post_type == ‘download’) {
$content = ‘CONTENT FOR CUSTOM POST TYPE’;
}
return $content;
}
thanx in advance
Mike says
Hi, this is a great tip.
Is it possible to add default content to a taxonomy description.
For example, every time someone makes a new Woocommerce Product Category, I would like to add a string with a shortcode and instructions into the description field.
Thanks.
Rodrigo says
Hi! How can I add html to the content? My content includes s and several other elements with “classes” and quotation marks. Maybe that is why the result was a blank page. Can anyone help me?
Ron says
Thanks for the update, very helpful. How can default editor text be added to existing posts/pages? For example, if I click ‘update’ post button. This code does not allow this content to be automatically added to older posts.
Arvind Gupta says
Can you tell how to do the same in portfolio post becuase i tried with it only add the content in post page
Scot MacDonald says
Might this work for excerpt as well with some tweaking? I guess just swap out content for excerpt…
brendan says
thanks! but, I’m a REAL novice at this code stuff… where within the php file do I put the code? there are so many sections within there, does it matter?
thanks again!
Dan Haddock says
This is an excellent tool but one thing that I was really hoping could be added would be the possibility to add this default content to posts that have already been published.
I was just wondering is there anyway of doing this as it would be the icing on a very yummy cake?
Mike says
How could I make this work but only for posts (ALL post types) and not for regular pages?
WPBeginner Support says
Take a look at this example:
add_filter( 'default_content', 'my_editor_content', 10, 2 ); function my_editor_content( $content, $post ) { switch( $post->post_type ) { case 'posts': $content = 'your content'; break; case 'stories': $content = 'your content'; break; case 'page': $content = ''; break; default: $content = 'your default content'; break; } return $content; }Admin
Jon Barnes says
Great! Thank you! This certainly fills the hole where a default post template should be
Yorgo says
when i add the code above and hit the publish button , a blank page returns. The post is saved but i have to go back and continue my work. I’m running 3.6.1
Any ideas ?
Thanx
WPBeginner Support says
Try removing the filter and then test.
Admin
tazo says
If you want to automatically add specific default or pre-defined content to your editor while publishing posts or pages, then insert one of the following codes into functions.php:
1)
function add_before_content($content) {
if ( ‘page’ == $post->post_type ) return $content .’Default page content.’;
if ( ‘post’ == $post->post_type ) return $content .’Default post content.’;
}
add_filter(‘the_content’, add_before_content);
2)
function add_before_content($content) {
return ‘Default Message’.$content;
}
add_action(‘publish_post’,add_before_content);
add_action(‘update_post’,add_before_content);
add_filter(‘the_content’, add_before_content);
Chris G says
What if I only want to add default content for certain post types?
Editorial Staff says
Just updated the article for you with the way to do that
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AshleyBriscoe says
How do you add a recurring http:// url using this method, when i do the http:// starts commenting the code out
gcarter1mwc says
Hi — this is perfect. But need one tweak. How can this be applied to one type of post only or even to a certain post?
I’m not well-versed in php but tried the following:
add_filter( ‘default_content’, ‘my_editor_content’ );
function my_editor_content( $content ) { $content = “If you like this post, then please consider retweeting it or sharing it on Facebook.”; return $content; }
function my_editor_content( $content ) {
if ( is_page( ‘about’ )) {
$content = “This is some custom content I’m adding to the post editor because I hate re-typing it.”;
return $content;
}
}
I don’t get an error. It simply doesn’t work. Is there a way to apply such a conditional to the function? Or, does a function do its thing with no respect to conditions?
Thanks — Mike
Coolest says
I have several blogs I want to try this code on. Thanks for sharing.
Mick says
Wow, very interesting. Thanks for this post
Ahtisham says
it is very intesting…. and cool… thanks
Sonu says
Added code snippet to my notes really helpful.
Kylu says
Aren’t “Article Template Plugins” more useful?
For instance: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/article-templates/
Derek Jensen says
Thanks! So simple but useful!