Title: shortcode not working
Last modified: June 22, 2020

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# shortcode not working

 *  [winterlabb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/winterlabb/)
 * (@winterlabb)
 * [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-not-working-342/)
 * Hi,
    I just found your pluging, what I think is amazing but I don’t get to show
   the shortcode.
 * I read in support I have to add this code to funcions.php:
    add_filter(‘acf/format_value/
   type=textarea’, ‘do_shortcode’); (done but not working)
 * I have added this shortcode where I want it to be shown:
    [acf field=”categorytext”]
 * any ideas please? Thanks!! 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [winterlabb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/winterlabb/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-not-working-342/)
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