Title: setting custom field as Shortcode
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# setting custom field as Shortcode

 *  [ramllo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ramllo/)
 * (@ramllo)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/setting-custom-field-as-shortcode/)
 * Hello,
 * Im trying to display a custom field value as a shortcode. How is this possible?
   
   this is my code:
 * `<?php echo do_shortcode('['.the_field('field_name').']');?>`
 * Thanks in advance…

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 * [shortcode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shortcode/)

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