Title: [Plugin: Contact Form 7] Shortcode is not rendering form
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Contact Form 7] Shortcode is not rendering form

 *  Resolved [jakobud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakobud/)
 * (@jakobud)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-contact-form-7-shortcode-is-not-rendering-form/)
 * Trying to get ContactForm 7 to work on a custom theme I made. I pasted the form
   shortcode into a page (the Visual part, not the HTML/source editor).
 * When I view the page, I just see the shortcode itself. No form is rendered.
 * What requirements from a custom template are there for ContactForm 7 to work?
   My template runs both wp_head() and wp_footer() in the appropriate locations.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Takayuki Miyoshi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takayukister/)
 * (@takayukister)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-contact-form-7-shortcode-is-not-rendering-form/#post-2288606)
 * > What requirements from a custom template are there for ContactForm 7 to work?
 * [the_content()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_content)
 *  Thread Starter [jakobud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakobud/)
 * (@jakobud)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-contact-form-7-shortcode-is-not-rendering-form/#post-2288635)
 * Ah that was the problem. I was displaying my content via
 * echo $post->post_content();
 * Thanks

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 * Last reply from: [jakobud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakobud/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-contact-form-7-shortcode-is-not-rendering-form/#post-2288635)
 * Status: resolved