Title: diffrences between shortcodes
Last modified: August 22, 2016

---

# diffrences between shortcodes

 *  [droidcan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miciy/)
 * (@miciy)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/diffrences-between-shortcodes/)
 * hello, what is the diffrenences between wordpress shortcodes?
    For example i’ve
   just installed a plug in and I am able to use shortcode of this plug in in page
   or post but not able to use it in specific php template… what is the main reason
   for it?

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)

 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/diffrences-between-shortcodes/#post-5392806)
 * How are you calling the shortcode in your template files?
 * Just as a FYI, the way to do this is using this sort of code:
 * `echo do_shortcode ('[shortcode_in_here]');`
 * That should be enough for the shortcode to be displayed in a template file.
 *  Thread Starter [droidcan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miciy/)
 * (@miciy)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/diffrences-between-shortcodes/#post-5392840)
 * 1.<?php do_shortcode(‘[shortcode]’)?>
    2.<?php echo do_shortcode(‘[shortcode]’)?
   >
 * i tried both of them but not working
 * I am using this plug in
 * [http://www.extendyourweb.com/wordpress/jquery-horizontal-scroller/](http://www.extendyourweb.com/wordpress/jquery-horizontal-scroller/)
 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/diffrences-between-shortcodes/#post-5392842)
 * So… What is showing? What errors are you seeing? What is it doing that it’s not
   meant to, or what isn’t it doing that it is meant to?
 * As a tip, saying “doesn’t work” gives us absolutely nothing to go by. You really
   need to add more details so we can at least get some idea of what is actually
   happening.
 *  Thread Starter [droidcan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miciy/)
 * (@miciy)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/diffrences-between-shortcodes/#post-5392852)
 * when I trying this code `<?php echo do_shortcode('[scroller 1 /]')?>` the output
   is **[scroller 1 /]**
 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/diffrences-between-shortcodes/#post-5392889)
 * You don’t need to have the slash at the end. You can use
 * `[scroller 1]`
 * if the sortcode works that way.
 * But if it’s not owrking there’s two choices. Either the plugin is installed but
   isn’t activated (which I don’t think is the case as you said that it works other
   places), or there’s a problem with the plugin, and if that’s the case you should
   ask the author about that.

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)

The topic ‘diffrences between shortcodes’ is closed to new replies.

 * In: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/)
 * 5 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/diffrences-between-shortcodes/#post-5392889)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics