Most of us who design and manage sites using WordPress make heavy use of “short codes” as a quick and easy way to add image galleries, videos, and other media.

Did you know you can use Shortcodes in your WordPress page templates and theme as well? It’s just a matter of tapping into the powerful WordPress short code API.

I needed to add a payment form using a short code from the Gravity Forms Plugin in a custom WordPress Page template – in this case my theme file “template_gravityform.php”.

Here’s the code I used:

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Nice and simple, no?

It took me a while to track down just the right syntax to do that, and I hope this post can save you some of that time!

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