Title: Shortcode as Template Tag
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Shortcode as Template Tag

 *  Resolved [ameraz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ameraz/)
 * (@ameraz)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-as-template-tag/)
 * WP 3.5.2
    Cart66 1.5.1
 * I would like to incorporate some shortcodes to my template like so:
 *     ```
       $wholesale = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'item_mayoreo', true);
       $item = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'item', true);
   
       echo do_shortcode('[hide_from level="Wholesale"]');
       	echo do_shortcode('[add_to_cart item="'.$item.'"]');
       echo do_shortcode('[/hide_from]');
   
       echo do_shortcode('[show_to level="Wholesale"]');
       	echo do_shortcode('[add_to_cart item="'.$wholesale.'"]');
       echo do_shortcode('[/show_to]');
       ```
   
 * this doesn’t work!! … obviuosly …
 * I bought a license some years ago so now I don’t have access to the premium support…
   It would be nice to find someone with the same kind of problem…
 * I couldn’t find any reference documents of Cart66 Template Tags or something 
   like so…
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/cart66-lite/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/cart66-lite/)

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 *  Thread Starter [ameraz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ameraz/)
 * (@ameraz)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-as-template-tag/#post-3971489)
 * damn!! i hate when this happens… some minutes later!!!
 * it should be like this:
 *     ```
       $wholesale = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'item_mayoreo', true);
       $item = get_post_meta($post->ID, 'item', true);
   
       echo do_shortcode('[hide_from level="Wholesale"]'.'[add_to_cart item="'.$item.'"]'.'[/hide_from]');
       echo do_shortcode('[show_to level="Wholesale"]'.'[add_to_cart item="'.$wholesale.'"]'.'[/show_to]');
       ```
   

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## Tags

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

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 * Last reply from: [ameraz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ameraz/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-as-template-tag/#post-3971489)
 * Status: resolved