Title: Plugin shortcode help?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Plugin shortcode help?

 *  [alecwild](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alecwild/)
 * (@alecwild)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-shortcode-help/)
 * Hello,
 * I’m using the postTabs plugin, and am having trouble getting *some* shortcodes
   from other plugins (like nextGen gallery) to work *inside* the postTabs shortcode.
   Is there a way to execute a shortcode within a shortcode? Where can I fix that?
 * Thanks for the help in advance!
 * Alec

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 *  [tslice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tslice/)
 * (@tslice)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-shortcode-help/#post-992949)
 * Have you read the shortcode api codex?
    I’m not familiar with either shortcode
   or their usage, but the functionality you’re looking for may not be supported.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API](http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API)
 *  Thread Starter [alecwild](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alecwild/)
 * (@alecwild)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-shortcode-help/#post-992956)
 * Hi,
 * Yes, it is supported . . . I tried to input
 * function tab_shortcode( $atts, $content = null ) {
    return ‘<span class=”tab”
   >’ . do_shortcode($content) . ‘</span>’; }
 * add_action(‘thesis_hook_after_content’, ‘tab_shortcode’, ’11’);
 * into my custom_functions.php, but to no avail.
 * Can anyone help me with where this code should go?
 *  Thread Starter [alecwild](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alecwild/)
 * (@alecwild)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-shortcode-help/#post-993129)
 * Anyone?
 * I feel certain that I just need to add the do_shorcode($content) action to the
   postTabs script. Can anyone tell me how/where to add it?
 * You can download the script here:
 * [
    postTabs.php
 * Please help if you can!

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 * [shortcode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shortcode/)

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 * Last reply from: [alecwild](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alecwild/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-shortcode-help/#post-993129)
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