Title: Get placeholder content programatically
Last modified: February 27, 2017

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# Get placeholder content programatically

 *  Resolved [Rocco Marco Guglielmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/roccomarco/)
 * (@roccomarco)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-placeholder-content-programatically/)
 * Hi,
    is there any way to get the value of a placeholder programatically?

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 *  [caimin_nwl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caimin_nwl/)
 * (@caimin_nwl)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-placeholder-content-programatically/#post-8854100)
 * Hi,
 * Can you explain a bit more about how you want to retrieve it? It’s possible to
   call Events Manager shortcodes within _do\_shortcode_ and use placeholders within
   that.
 * Something like this:
 * `do_shortocde('[events_list]#_EVENTLINK[/eventslist]');`

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 * Last reply from: [caimin_nwl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/caimin_nwl/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/get-placeholder-content-programatically/#post-8854100)
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