Title: Short Code Issue Last modified: August 21, 2016 --- # Short Code Issue * Resolved [allanlud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allanlud/) * (@allanlud) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/short-code-issue-2/) * Hi, I’m having a problem getting the shortcode to work in the header.php file. * It works fine when adding it to a page or post in the WP dashboard, but using the code supplied on the tipsandtricks-hq site () nothing seems to happen, no error message etc… * Any ideas? * Thanks. Al. * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/compact-wp-audio-player/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/compact-wp-audio-player/) Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) * Thread Starter [allanlud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allanlud/) * (@allanlud) * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/short-code-issue-2/#post-4137207) * Ok just found the problem, I added ‘echo’ just after the opening php bracket and it works now! Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total) The topic ‘Short Code Issue’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/compact-wp-audio-player/assets/icon-128x128.png?rev=994411) * [Compact WP Audio Player](https://wordpress.org/plugins/compact-wp-audio-player/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/compact-wp-audio-player/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/compact-wp-audio-player/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/compact-wp-audio-player/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/compact-wp-audio-player/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/compact-wp-audio-player/reviews/) ## Tags * [shortcode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shortcode/) * 1 reply * 1 participant * Last reply from: [allanlud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/allanlud/) * Last activity: [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/short-code-issue-2/#post-4137207) * Status: resolved