Title: Should work
Last modified: December 6, 2017

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# Should work

 *  [sgoldsmith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sgoldsmith/)
 * (@sgoldsmith)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/should-work/)
 * I would like to create a menu item and then have a short code executed when the
   menu is pressed. Is that possible with this plugin? I tried the example of putting
   a short code in the custom link but that executes on display.

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