Title: Nesting a shortcode inside a HTML snippet
Last modified: June 12, 2024

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# Nesting a shortcode inside a HTML snippet

 *  Resolved [daisensou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daisensou/)
 * (@daisensou)
 * [1 year, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nesting-a-shortcode-inside-a-html-snippet/)
 * Hi, is there a way to insert shortcodes inside an HTML snippet? I have enabled
   PHP and “Evaluate additional shortcode tags” and doesnt work for me.
 * So what I wanted to do is:
    - Insert HTML Snippet #1 [code_snippet id=1 php shortcodes] to HTML Snippet #
      2
 * So in HTML Snippet #2 I want this to work, is this possible?
 * `<div> [code_snippet id=1 php shortcodes] </div>`
 * Thanks in advance

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 *  Plugin Author [Shea Bunge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bungeshea/)
 * (@bungeshea)
 * [1 year, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nesting-a-shortcode-inside-a-html-snippet/#post-17855601)
 * Hi [@daisensou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daisensou/),
 * Unfortunately, this currently isn’t possible – we disable nesting of the [code_snippet]
   shortcode to prevent recursion.
 * I can definitely see the use-case here though, so I’ll see what we can do to 
   make it possible.
 *  Plugin Author [Shea Bunge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bungeshea/)
 * (@bungeshea)
 * [1 year, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nesting-a-shortcode-inside-a-html-snippet/#post-18179808)
 * I’ve raised this as an issue in our GitHub repository for easier tracking: [https://github.com/codesnippetspro/code-snippets/issues/198](https://github.com/codesnippetspro/code-snippets/issues/198)

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 * Last reply from: [Shea Bunge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bungeshea/)
 * Last activity: [1 year, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/nesting-a-shortcode-inside-a-html-snippet/#post-18179808)
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