Title: Shortcodes inside forms
Last modified: November 29, 2017

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# Shortcodes inside forms

 *  [billmondei](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billmondei/)
 * (@billmondei)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-inside-forms/)
 * Hi, I’d like to use shortcodes inside some of the form fields as default values
   shown to the user.
    Is this possible and how to achieve it? thank you

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 *  Plugin Support [Ultimate Member Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ultimatemembersupport/)
 * (@ultimatemembersupport)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-inside-forms/#post-9737041)
 * Hi [@billmondei](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billmondei/),
 * Unfortunately, it’s not possible in the current version of the plugin.
    Can you
   please clarify what shortcodes do you want to use and how this should work so
   we can better understand your feature request.
 * Let us know.
    Regards.
 *  Thread Starter [billmondei](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billmondei/)
 * (@billmondei)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-inside-forms/#post-9738433)
 * Consider the following use-case:
    - I run a website of personal IT advice. I have a form on a user’s page that
      the user can’t edit (only admin can). That form simply contains a basic, generic
      advice (e.g. `Try reseting your computer`) – as a Default Text that the user
      sees when he logs in to his account (I’m using the TextArea field for that,
      setting `Does this textarea accept HTML` to `yes`).
    - Next, as an admin, I open that user’s account and edit his form to contain
      a more personalized advice (e.g. `Hey Jim, try resetting your HP machine`).
    - My goal is for the initial, generic advice to already be as personalized as
      possible, so for example, ideally I would like to be able to put the following
      as the Default Text in the textarea field: `Hey [user_name], ...` (I’m using
      the “User shortcodes plus” plugin for the different shortcodes)
 * Other use-cases might be around say launching an iframe in a lightbox with more
   detailed walk-through with pictures (there’s a bunch of plugins that provide 
   the lightbox functionality based on shortcodes) – again, as the Default Text.

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