Title: php function does not render third party shortcodes
Last modified: July 27, 2018

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# php function does not render third party shortcodes

 *  [dimned](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dimned/)
 * (@dimned)
 * [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-function-does-not-render-third-party-shortcodes/)
 * I used php function below to embed text block to the template file
 * `<?php if(function_exists('show_text_block')) { echo show_text_block('my-text-
   block', true); } ?>`
 * I used third party shortocdes on this text block but it was not rendered ans 
   shows just as shortcodes.

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-function-does-not-render-third-party-shortcodes/)
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