Posting a WordPress shortcode without it being processed

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I often want to show a shortcode in a tutorial post without it actually processing the shortcode. For example [contact_form]

In the old classic editor, you could switch to Text and use the html entities

[ becomes [

] becomes ]

so you could use [contact_form] but alas that no longer works as you can see!

The very simple answer buried away in a 2007 bug tracker and reported here is to use double brackets

[[contact_form]]

If it’s a shortcode with content then you only need the double brackets at the very start and end

[[shortcode]Content[/shortcode]]

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Andy Moyle is a church leader and web developer. His biggest project is the Church Admin WordPress plugin and app. He also runs, mainly so he can eat pizza.