Title: Using Shortcodes or PHP
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Using Shortcodes or PHP

 *  [aaronmwhitener](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaronmwhitener/)
 * (@aaronmwhitener)
 * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-shortcodes-or-php/)
 * So this is perfect because it has the continue button. However, I want to add
   a countdowntimer to it, which it doesn’t offer. So i just download another timer
   plugin and call the shortcode in the text area, right? Nope doesn’t work. Even
   when I try to call the time using php, i get no where. What am i doing wrong?-
   aw
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 * Last reply from: [aaronmwhitener](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aaronmwhitener/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-shortcodes-or-php/)
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