Title: Map Shortcode in Visual Composer
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Map Shortcode in Visual Composer

 *  [activecontent](https://wordpress.org/support/users/activecontent/)
 * (@activecontent)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/map-shortcode-in-visual-composer/)
 * Hi,
 * This is more a tip than a question.
 * When you are using Visual Composer in your WP Theme you can easily map the CFDB
   shortcode (generated shortcode) in Visual Composer.
 * Go to Settings -> Visual Composer -> My Shortcodes
 * Just paste the complete generated shortcode into the textfield and hit Parse 
   Shortcode.
 * Visual Composer will automatically generate parameters for all fields (like: 
   show, filter, orderby, form, etc etc). The more parameters you set on the CFDB–
   Shortcode page, the more control you will have over your shortcode in Visual 
   Composer (it will display a default value for all paramaters when inserting through
   VC).
 * When inserting the shortcode into a page using Visual Composer – My Shortcodes
   tab, you can adjust all parameters and easily display any form information you
   want.
 * In my case i am using Contact Form 7.
 * Hope this helps for anyone looking to easily re-use CFDB shortcode queries when
   using Visual Composer.
 * P.S.: using CFDB for a few weeks now and wasn’t aware of it’s possibilities. 
   Amazing! Thanks for creating this plugin!
 * Marcellino
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7-to-database-extension/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7-to-database-extension/)

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 *  [stewolfi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stewolfi/)
 * (@stewolfi)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/map-shortcode-in-visual-composer/#post-5994510)
 * I tried this in the same way you described here.
    After parsing short code always
   get the message that the code is invalid????? example [contact-form-7 id=”8471″]
   I’ve no idea

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/map-shortcode-in-visual-composer/#post-5994510)
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