Title: PHP Shortcodes
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# PHP Shortcodes

 *  [solidsoul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solidsoul/)
 * (@solidsoul)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-shortcodes-1/)
 * Looking for some information on how I can access POST information to echo in 
   PHP…
 * What I’m trying to do is create a feature box in a specific spot on the front
   page.. I know there are some widgets for sidebars & footers ext… but I want to
   show some posts on the main page and the theme dont support it.
 * I was hoping to be able to build the html structure for the box and echo out 
   the TITLE and CONTENT of the post in the proper places…
 * Thought about just creating my own DB query to grab all the post details and 
   shuffle through them – but has to be a built in function for this already to 
   use as a shortcode even…
 * [display post] don’t seem to work

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 * Last reply from: [solidsoul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solidsoul/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-shortcodes-1/)
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