Adding a post shortcode to a page template?

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hey guys,
The “mingle forum plugin” provides the following shortcode [mingleforum].
When I paste this into a page the forum is shown.

My forum is using a specific page-template called forum.php. Is it possible to already include this shortcode in the page-template itself, so I don’t have to paste it in the wordpress backend anymore. So that when I use the forum.php page template the forum is always automatically embedded?

Thank you for your tipps and info.

1 Answer
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To use shortcode in a PHP file (outside the post editor) you have the handy little function
do_shortcode();

so in your case you use:

<?php
do_shortcode('[mingleforum]');
?>

Update:

following the first comment,
I figured its publicly known for some reason,

if you are expecting output from the shortcode then echo it out.

<?php
echo do_shortcode('[mingleforum]');
?>

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