The ability to use shortcodes in quite a few areas of WordPress isn’t enabled by default. An example of this behavior is WordPress widgets or WordPress post titles, where you need to add a filter to enable the same inside the same.
While not as often in widgets, if you do come across a situation whereby you need to use a shortcode inside a form created with The Gravity Forms Plugin, you’ll find that it will do not output its value by default.
![gravity forms shortcodes](https://wpstreak.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/gravity-forms-shortcodes.png)
To change this behavior and enable the use of shortcodes inside Gravity Forms’ title, description and other fields such as a text field, textarea field, checkboxes etc., add the following to your theme’s functions.php
file.
<?php
/* Enable Shortcode in Gravity Forms */
add_filter( 'gform_get_form_filter', 'shortcode_unautop', 11 );
add_filter( 'gform_get_form_filter', 'do_shortcode', 11 );
That’s it – two simple filters that will enable the use of shortcodes inside Gravity Forms.