Title: Shortcodes
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Shortcodes

 *  [art42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/art42/)
 * (@art42)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-2/)
 * Hello
 * For any experts out there. When ever I apply my shortcode tags, they dont seem
   to work. Instead I just see the text “[example shortcode]” and thats it.
 * If you could help it would be much apprciated

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 *  [David Gwyer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgwyer/)
 * (@dgwyer)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-2/#post-1920684)
 * Depends where you are trying to apply them? Widgets, inside theme template files,
   post/pages etc?
 * For example to make them work directly from within theme code you need to use
   the do_shortcode() function:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/do_shortcode](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/do_shortcode)
 *  Thread Starter [art42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/art42/)
 * (@art42)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-2/#post-1920689)
 * Hi and thank for getting back to me.
 * I’m trying to make them work on a Page, I’ve placed it in the HTML yet no luck.
 * Am I right in saying that I will need to put the following instead;
 * do_shortcode(‘[example shortcode]’)
 *  [David Gwyer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgwyer/)
 * (@dgwyer)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-2/#post-1920692)
 * You need to have something like:
 * `<?php echo do_shortcode( '[example shortcode]' ) ?>`
 *  Thread Starter [art42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/art42/)
 * (@art42)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-2/#post-1920773)
 * Thank you again for gettng back to me.
 * I place it into the site and i still get nothing.
 * This is a theme which i put together my self. If it possible that I may have 
   missed out some important coding regarding the matter?
 *  [David Gwyer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgwyer/)
 * (@dgwyer)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-2/#post-1920787)
 * Probably something to do with the shortcode function itself. I would suggest 
   you get the shortcode working so that you can add it to a post/page easily (i.
   e. in the editor).
 * Then after you confirm it is working you can use the do_shortcode() function 
   to add it to your page template code.
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-2/#post-1920788)
 * more concrete details please:
 * do you insert the shortcode into the content of a page?
    or into a page template?
   what is the code of the shortcode (probably defined in functions.php of your 
   theme)? link to your site to illustrate this problem?

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 * Last reply from: [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-2/#post-1920788)
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