Title: When do shortcodes get loaded?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# When do shortcodes get loaded?

 *  Resolved [Darryl.R](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darrylr/)
 * (@darrylr)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/when-do-shortcodes-get-loaded/)
 * Hi
 * After which WP hook do the shortcodes for this plugin get loaded?
 * Contact form short codes work after `<?php require_once('wp-load.php'); ?>` is
   loaded on a page.
 * My website is completely locked outside users; and I’ve used contact form 7 to
   capture user registration requests, but I want a more fluent system. I was hoping
   that I could include your shortcode in a custom page outside of WordPress that
   will allow users to register with more detail. Example of what I want to do;
 *     ```
       <?php require_once('wp-load.php'); ?>
       <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
       <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
       <head>
       <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
       <title>User Registration Request</title>
       </head>
       <body>
       <?php echo do_shortcode( '[wppb-register]' ); ?>
       </body>
       </html>
       ```
   
 * Thanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/profile-builder/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/profile-builder/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Cristian Antohe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sareiodata/)
 * (@sareiodata)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/when-do-shortcodes-get-loaded/#post-6781952)
 * Closed for being a duplicate: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/when-do-shortcodes-get-loaded-1](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/when-do-shortcodes-get-loaded-1)

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 * Last reply from: [Cristian Antohe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sareiodata/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/when-do-shortcodes-get-loaded/#post-6781952)
 * Status: resolved