https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/use-gravity-forms-shortcode-in-a-custom-field Gravity Support Forums Topic: Use Gravity Forms Shortcode in a Custom Field... en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:35:15 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/use-gravity-forms-shortcode-in-a-custom-field#post-9927 Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:02:40 +0000 abrudtkuhl 9927@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>When I do this I get a JS error...</p> <p>Error: gf_apply_rules is not defined</p> <p>Any ideas? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/use-gravity-forms-shortcode-in-a-custom-field#post-6192 Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:47:55 +0000 dax 6192@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I thought I would share this. I have a template that uses custom fields to output content in an additional content area on the page. I had been outputting the content in the template using this code:</p> <p><code>echo wpautop(get_post_meta($post-&gt;ID, &#39;custom_field_name_here&#39;, true));</code></p> <p>This outputted the content with the shortcode as text (not being processed). I changed it to the following and was able to allow users to use shortcodes in the custom field and have the shortcode output the form on the page properly.</p> <p><code>echo apply_filters(&#39;the_content&#39;, get_post_meta($post-&gt;ID, &#39;custom_field_name_here&#39;, true));</code></p> <p>Be sure to replace <em>custom_field_name_here</em> with your custom field name. This code goes in a template file of your theme. You will also need to include the gravity form CSS file explicitly as it does not seem to get inserted automatically using this method. I added this to the top of my template file.</p> <p><code>&lt;link rel=&#39;stylesheet&#39; id=&#39;gforms_css-css&#39; href=&#39;/wp-content/plugins/gravityforms/css/forms.css?ver=2.9.2&#39; type=&#39;text/css&#39; media=&#39;&#39; /&gt;</code></p> <p>Hope this helps others. </p>