Title: displaying SHORTCODE
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# displaying SHORTCODE

 *  Resolved [captaincainer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/captaincainer/)
 * (@captaincainer)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/displaying-shortcode-1/)
 * I’m adding a shortcode to a meta text field [unlimited-icon] and it’s displaying
   with the square brackets. I am wondering how to display the shortcode on the 
   frontend?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/meta-box/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/meta-box/)

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 *  Thread Starter [captaincainer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/captaincainer/)
 * (@captaincainer)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/displaying-shortcode-1/#post-6323256)
 * I’ve tried adding “‘raw’ => true” to the metabox type=text and it still fails.
 *  Thread Starter [captaincainer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/captaincainer/)
 * (@captaincainer)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/displaying-shortcode-1/#post-6323260)
 * I fixed this by using do_shortcode…
 *     ```
       <?php
       $tablecell19 = rwmb_meta( 'tb_comparisontable19_cell', 'type=text' );
       	foreach ( $tablecell19 as $cell ){ ?>
       		<td>
       		<?php echo do_shortcode( $cell ); ?>
       		</td>
       <?php } ?>
       ```
   

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 * Last reply from: [captaincainer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/captaincainer/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/displaying-shortcode-1/#post-6323260)
 * Status: resolved