Title: form_id shortcode not doing anything
Last modified: April 23, 2019

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# form_id shortcode not doing anything

 *  Resolved [gtvracer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gtvracer/)
 * (@gtvracer)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form_id-shortcode-not-doing-anything/)
 * Hello,
    Just starting to use UM and went through the steps of creating the forms
   for the login, registration and profile pages, with their respective [ultimatemember
   form_id=”40″] style shortcodes.
 * I put one of them into a custom html widget on the sidebar just to see, but all
   I see is the shortcode string, i.e. [ultimatemember form_id=”40″], and not the
   form itself.
 * Any ideas on how to make this shortcode appear on the widget (just for testing
   now).
    Thanks.

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 *  Thread Starter [gtvracer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gtvracer/)
 * (@gtvracer)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form_id-shortcode-not-doing-anything/#post-11460457)
 * Found the problem. In UM’s class-shortcodes.php::load() method, I needed to add
   this:
 * // adding this bit of code because $template will be null otherwise..
    $template
   = $post_data[‘template’];
 * $this->template_load( $template, $args );
 * Otherwise, $template is uninitialized when calling template_load() and nothing
   shows up, as the file name to the php file cannot be constructed.
 * This is in UM version 2.0.43

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