Title: BUG: shortcode in date-query not applied
Last modified: December 5, 2017

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# BUG: shortcode in date-query not applied

 *  [EXED internet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/exed-internet/)
 * (@exed-internet)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-shortcode-in-date-query-not-applied/)
 * Hi,
 * Just noticed, that the w4pl shortcodes for date and time are not applied in the
   helper-posts-date_query.php file.
 * Please add the following snippet in the parse_query_args function, on line 219.
 *     ```
                 // parse shortcode from date values, this allows to use dynamic values
                 if( is_array($dq['value']) ){
                   $dq['value'] = array_map('do_shortcode', $dq['value']);
                 }
                 elseif( !empty($dq['value']) ){
                   $dq['value'] = do_shortcode($dq['value']);
                 }
       ```
   

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-shortcode-in-date-query-not-applied/)
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