Title: shortcode in theme php
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# shortcode in theme php

 *  [pyrohot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pyrohot/)
 * (@pyrohot)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-in-theme-php/)
 * Please help! I want to use shortcode in theme php file, but i cant get it to 
   work. For now i have link:
 *     ```
       <?php if ( get_post_meta($post->ID, 'cp_wp-link', true) ) ?>
       									<p><br>	<a href="<?php echo get_post_meta( $post->ID, 'cp_wp-link', true ); ?>" class="obtn btn_orange" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">LINK &raquo;</a></p><p>
       ```
   
 * that i want to be inside shortcode [to_like id=”14793″] [/to_like]
    I tryed `
   <?php echo do_shortcode("[to_like id="14793"] [/to_like]"); ?>` but it wont work…

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