Title: Custom Fields are not displayed using shortcode
Last modified: April 3, 2019

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# Custom Fields are not displayed using shortcode

 *  [josemarrae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josemarrae/)
 * (@josemarrae)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-are-not-displayed-using-shortcode/)
 * I have created several custom fields which I want to show on a page using a shortcode.
   
   Following the documentation I used: [acf field = “name”] When viewing the page,
   the content of the field is not shown.

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 *  [clemart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/clemart/)
 * (@clemart)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-fields-are-not-displayed-using-shortcode/#post-11451979)
 * Hi [@josemarrae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/josemarrae/)
 * Whats is your field type? The feature only work for simple text based value.
 * Let me know 🙂
    Clément M

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