Title: Using [plugin code] in plain html
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Using [plugin code] in plain html

 *  [somebadguy711](https://wordpress.org/support/users/somebadguy711/)
 * (@somebadguy711)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-plugin-code-in-plain-html/)
 * Maybe this was already asked before, but I’ll ask nonetheless 😛
 * There’s a plugin I use to post videos on my blog. The problem is, that if you
   wrap the video url in [proplayer width=’xxx’ height…etc]video file url[/proplayer],
   it works perfectly, but only if you use that in posts or pages. I’d wish for 
   the [proplayer] tag to be parsed in plain html (as in if I’d paste the tag code
   somewhere into the theme’s html code, as I need an advertisement video to show
   up somewhere aether than in my posts). The result I get is plain ‘[proplayer 
   width=’xxx’ height…etc]video file url[/proplayer]’ as text.
    And I know I can’t
   parse the code via a post > check page’s source code > paste the generate html
   code for the video into my theme code, as some parts of the video code are randomly
   generated everytime the viewer reloads the page, due to which the code is dynamic
   and won’t work simply by pasting it’s generated html into my theme files.
 * So yeah, hell load of text ^ and I doubt many of you understood what I’m trying
   to get at 😛
    So once again, I want stuff like [proplayer][/proplayer], [z-index][/
   z-index], [etc…] to be treated by wordpress in plain html same way as it’s treated
   when put in pages and posts.
 * Any possible plugin or a solution that would help me out here? ^^

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-plugin-code-in-plain-html/#post-1044491)
 * What you’re describing sounds like a shortcode. Shortcodes are a pretty basic
   part of WordPress and I doubt you’ll see their handling changing any time soon.
   Perhaps you should contact the plugin’s author?

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-plugin-code-in-plain-html/#post-1044491)
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