Title: shortcode in hidden fields?
Last modified: September 2, 2016

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# shortcode in hidden fields?

 *  Resolved [Ginger Coolidge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/txgspice/)
 * (@txgspice)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-in-hidden-fields/)
 * Hi Brandon,
 * Thanks for your efforts on the popular Genesis eNews Extended plugin.
 * I’m using MailChimp’s merge fields in the Hidden Fields section and it works 
   great. Instead of hard-coding a value though I’d like to use a shortcode instead.
   Is there a way to turn on shortcodes in the Hidden Fields section of the widget?
   I’ve tried this below in hopes it might work but so far no joy.
 * `add_filter('enews-widget', 'do_shortcode');`

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 *  Thread Starter [Ginger Coolidge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/txgspice/)
 * (@txgspice)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-in-hidden-fields/#post-8146252)
 * Or, allowing us to use PHP in the hidden fields value would be even better, currently
   it strips all this out:
 * `<input type=”hidden” name=”SOURCE” value=”<?php the_title(); ?>” >’
 *  Plugin Author [Brandon Kraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kraftbj/)
 * (@kraftbj)
 * Code Wrangler
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-in-hidden-fields/#post-8223226)
 * I’m afraid that wouldn’t work, but I’ve marked it as a potential enhancement.
   Cheers!

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

 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Brandon Kraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kraftbj/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-in-hidden-fields/#post-8223226)
 * Status: resolved