Title: template part vs shortcode
Last modified: September 7, 2016

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# template part vs shortcode

 *  [muchmuch11](https://wordpress.org/support/users/muchmuch11/)
 * (@muchmuch11)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-part-vs-shortcode/)
 * To place code or something on header.php, single.php, or anything else, I can
   choose between calling template part or shortcode, so, what’s the different between
   them? It seems interchangeable if I’m not building a plugin.

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 *  [Sakar Upadhyaya Khatiwada](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sakaruk/)
 * (@sakaruk)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-part-vs-shortcode/#post-8156070)
 * Template parts means you are loading the part of the file but shortcode means
   you are running a function with an argument. So some code to be reused the template
   part can be useful than shortcode since you want to load part of the code everywhere
   rather than calling a function that will give some output when it is invoked.
 *  Thread Starter [muchmuch11](https://wordpress.org/support/users/muchmuch11/)
 * (@muchmuch11)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/template-part-vs-shortcode/#post-8156371)
 * I just read further about this, each of them have its own “limitations”, with
   one easier to resolve certain task rather than the other. Thanks!

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 * [shortcode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shortcode/)
 * [template part](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/template-part/)

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