Title: Adding or Duplicate section
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Adding or Duplicate section

 *  [grafica.villcom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/graficavillcom/)
 * (@graficavillcom)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-or-duplicate-section/)
 * Hi guys,
 * I’m using onepress child theme and I read your post about adding sections ([http://docs.famethemes.com/article/59-how-to-add-new-section-via-child-theme-in-onepress](http://docs.famethemes.com/article/59-how-to-add-new-section-via-child-theme-in-onepress)).
   But in that way it seems I can’t use shortcodes inside the code also with do_shortcode
   function. Do you know why?
 * In alternative I wish to duplicate the About section to show a content from a
   page. How can I do?
 * Thank you

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 *  Thread Starter [grafica.villcom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/graficavillcom/)
 * (@graficavillcom)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-or-duplicate-section/#post-7157473)
 * I resolved one of the problem… shortcodes can be used with `<?php echo do_shortcode('[
   my_shortcode]'); ?>` function.
 * So I can use your method to add one section. But what if I wanto to add two sections?
   If I repeat function add_my_custom_section() I get 500 server error…
 *  [shrimp2t](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shrimp2t/)
 * (@shrimp2t)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-or-duplicate-section/#post-7157482)
 * Hey !
 * Please make sure your shortcode do not have any recursion functions or Infinite
   loops.
 * Could you upload your shortcode code to [http://pastebin.com/](http://pastebin.com/)
   I’ll take a look.
 *  [congthien](https://wordpress.org/support/users/congthien/)
 * (@congthien)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-or-duplicate-section/#post-7157483)
 * Hi guy,
 * You should make new function name, for example :
    `function my_custom_section_2()`
 * Don’t repeat any function name. That is why you get 500 server error.
 * Kind regards.
 *  Thread Starter [grafica.villcom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/graficavillcom/)
 * (@graficavillcom)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-or-duplicate-section/#post-7157487)
 * Great!
 * Thank you very much!
 *  [congthien](https://wordpress.org/support/users/congthien/)
 * (@congthien)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-or-duplicate-section/#post-7157494)
 * You’re welcome 🙂 Glad we could help!

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-or-duplicate-section/#post-7157494)
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