Title: echo shortcode and custom fields help !
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# echo shortcode and custom fields help !

 *  [Tabashira](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tabashira2/)
 * (@tabashira2)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/echo-shortcode-and-custom-fields-help/)
 * i was trying to call a plugin in the PHP
    [youtube_video id=”uAOLzRhKF9c”]
 * and i wanted to get the video id from custom fields
    and i tried the following
 * <?php $video = get_post_meta($post->ID, ‘video_url’, true); ?>
    <?php echo do_shortcode(‘[
   youtube_video id=’.$Video.’]’); ?>
 * but not working … any help ?

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 * Last reply from: [Tabashira](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tabashira2/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/echo-shortcode-and-custom-fields-help/)
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