Title: Formatting Shortcode Output with a Template
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Formatting Shortcode Output with a Template

 *  [Tracy Rotton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taupecat/)
 * (@taupecat)
 * [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-shortcode-output-with-a-template/)
 * I’ve searched here & on Google, but cannot find the answer to my question…
 * I need to:
    1. Create a custom post type consisting simply of a title, body and slug (using
       WordPress 3.0)
    2. Be able to call a post of that type using a shortcode
    3. Display the output of that shortcode using formatting from an associated template
       file
 * I’ve done numbers 1 & 2, but cannot figure out number 3. It seems like I have
   to do all the HTML markup inside the shortcode function in PHP, but for reasons
   of error prevention and easier HTML updating, I don’t want that.
 * Is what I want even possible? Am I just missing something?
 * Thanks.

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 * Last reply from: [Tracy Rotton](https://wordpress.org/support/users/taupecat/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-shortcode-output-with-a-template/)
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