Title: using php to call a plugin (not short code)
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# using php to call a plugin (not short code)

 *  [mmmmdave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mmmmdave/)
 * (@mmmmdave)
 * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-php-to-call-a-plugin-not-short-code/)
 * Hi everyone,
 * I’m building a sidebar.php for a theme. I want to have a plugin in the sidebar,
   but the shortcode doesn’t work. I guess that means the plugin needs to be called
   via php. If the plugin’s name is awesome_plug_in, what’s the code I need to use?
 * Thanks!
 * Dave

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