Title: Sample HTML
Last modified: May 7, 2017

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# Sample HTML

 *  Resolved [gerhardjvr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gerhardjvr/)
 * (@gerhardjvr)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sample-html/)
 * I’m trying to add the Username of the currently logged in User to the menu, but
   failing (newbie)… I get this on the menu;
 * **_Welcome: _[current-username]**
 * Here is the code;
 * `<p><em><strong>Welcome: </em>[current-username]</strong></p>`
    -  This topic was modified 9 years, 1 month ago by [gerhardjvr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gerhardjvr/).

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 *  Plugin Author [Gagan Deep Singh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gagan0123/)
 * (@gagan0123)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sample-html/#post-9137111)
 * Gerhard
 * Sorry for the delayed reply, I’m extremely busy these days working out certain
   new things in WordPress.
 * About the issue you’re facing, I hope you have some sort of plugin or theme functionality,
   that is defining the shortcode you’re trying to use.
 * By default shortcode in menus plugin does not offer any shortcodes that you can
   use, but just provides the means to use them if they are already defined.
 * Just in case that isn’t defined, here’s a code snippet that you can paste in 
   your theme’s functions.php or any other custom plugin that you might have on 
   your site:
 * [https://git.avistu.in/snippets/1](https://git.avistu.in/snippets/1)
 * Once you have the code in your theme/plugin, you can add that to the menu like
   this:
 * To edit an existing shortcode you can do something like this:
 *  Thread Starter [gerhardjvr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gerhardjvr/)
 * (@gerhardjvr)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sample-html/#post-9137252)
 * Thank you so much, Gagan, your support has been exemplary.

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 * Last reply from: [gerhardjvr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gerhardjvr/)
 * Last activity: [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sample-html/#post-9137252)
 * Status: resolved