{"id":231,"date":"2012-06-05T07:49:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T07:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2014-06-09T05:15:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T05:15:24","slug":"wordpress-shortcode-in-custom-fields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/wordpress-shortcode-in-custom-fields\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress: Shortcode in Custom Field"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nNormally wordpress does not run shortcode that you put into a custom field. By default, Custom Fields display whatever value you enter, as plain-text, so if you try entering a shortcode, (in the format [shortcode] VALUE [\/shortcode]) you\u2019ll end up displaying the entire text, including the tags.<\/p>\n

Add the following in your template file, it can be single.php or page.php or else <\/p>\n

\r\necho apply_filters('the_content', get_post_meta($post->ID,'your_custom_field',true)); \r\n<\/pre>\n
or<\/p>\n
\r\n$shortcode=get_post_meta($post->ID,'your_custom_field',true);\r\necho do_shortcode($shortcode); \r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Normally wordpress does not run shortcode that you put into a custom field. By default, Custom Fields display whatever value you enter, as plain-text, so if you try entering a shortcode, (in the format [shortcode] VALUE [\/shortcode]) you\u2019ll end up displaying the entire text, including the tags. Add the following in your template file, it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,5],"tags":[55,135,106,6,7],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code-snippet","category-wordpress","tag-code-snippet-2","tag-custom-fields","tag-shortcodes","tag-wordpress-2","tag-wp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1pvi1-3J","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":208,"url":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/how-to-add-a-wordpress-shortcode-outside-post-editor-php-template\/","url_meta":{"origin":231,"position":0},"title":"How to add a WordPress shortcode outside of the post editor or  PHP templates","author":"Pixel Insert \/ Pixert","date":"March 13, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Shortcodes were introduced back in WordPress 2.5. 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