Title: Advanced Custom Fields Shortcode
Last modified: November 14, 2016

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# Advanced Custom Fields Shortcode

 *  [gv0000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gv0000/)
 * (@gv0000)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/advanced-custom-fields-shortcode/)
 * I’m trying to build a template that plays a youtube playlist a user enters by
   having a advanced custom field to store the playlist url and then using this:
   
   <?php $youtube_playlist = the_field(‘youtube-playlist’); $shortcode = ‘[embedyt]’.
   $youtube_playlist . ‘[/embedyt]’; echo do_shortcode($shortcode); ?> but it is
   just outputting the url of the playlist, where am I going wrong?
 * Thanks for any and all pointers!

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 *  Plugin Author [embedplus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/embedplus/)
 * (@embedplus)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/advanced-custom-fields-shortcode/#post-8451184)
 * Gv0000,
 * The way you’ve described it generally should work. Perhaps you can create an 
   example page so that someone can see the output you described.
 * -EmbedPlus Team
 * –

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## Tags

 * [advanced](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/advanced/)
 * [afc](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/afc/)
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 * Last activity: [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/advanced-custom-fields-shortcode/#post-8451184)
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