Title: function to call the shortcode programmatically
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# function to call the shortcode programmatically

 *  [karlosdpm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karlosdpm/)
 * (@karlosdpm)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/function-to-call-the-shortcode-programmatically-1/)
 * Hello,
 * Great plugin we love it!
 * How can we call the shortcodes programmatically, I am trying no to use: do_shortcode(‘[
   uam_ad id=”66096″]’ ); because this function is expensive.
 * Please advise.
 * Thank you!
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 *  Plugin Author [alex_schwabauer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alex_schwabauer/)
 * (@alex_schwabauer)
 * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/function-to-call-the-shortcode-programmatically-1/#post-6949283)
 * Hey,
 * thank you for the kind words!
 * Unfortunately, we currently do not expose an API for developer usage.
    This is
   however planned for future releases. So I hope you can get away with using do_shortcode
   for a while.
 * Thanks,
    Alex | Codeneric

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