Title: Adding contact form shortcode
Last modified: April 24, 2021

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# Adding contact form shortcode

 *  Resolved [Nick B.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dok_h/)
 * (@dok_h)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-contact-form-shortcode/)
 * Hi, first of all, congratulations for becoming one of the first block based theme
   provider in the repository 🙂
 * I am trying to add contact form shortcode through the site editor but it doesn’t
   work. I tried all the major contact form plugins. What am I missing here? Is 
   this not yet supported in FSE? It works on pages, but not when trying to add 
   it to the template within site editor.
 * Thanks

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 *  Theme Author [UXL Themes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uxl/)
 * (@uxl)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-contact-form-shortcode/#post-14359536)
 * Shortcodes work when placed in a _template part_ (header, footer etc) but not
   in a _template_ (page, index, single etc).
 * It seems to be an issue with Gutenberg FSE, and hopefully it will be fixed before
   FSE is available in WP core.
 * For now the solution is to either add the shortcode to a template part such as
   the header or footer, or create your own template part to contain the shortcode
   and then add the new template part to the page template.
 * To create a new template part, add a ‘Template Part’ block to the page template,
   select ‘New template part’ and add the shortcode block to the new template part.
 *  Thread Starter [Nick B.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dok_h/)
 * (@dok_h)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-contact-form-shortcode/#post-14360437)
 * [@uxl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uxl/) Thanks for clearing that up.
   This is very useful information.
 * Regards

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 * [template](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/template/)
 * [template part](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/template-part/)

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 * Last reply from: [Nick B.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dok_h/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-contact-form-shortcode/#post-14360437)
 * Status: resolved