atreyu6 on "[Plugin: Contact Form 7] Shortcode not working in custom page template"

Hi,

I have a custom made WP theme and I'm trying to insert a contact form on a page with a custom page template ("template-page.php"). However, it's not displaying the form - it just displays the shortcode itself: [contact-form-7 id="12263" title="form name"]

The contact form displays when I use the standard page template (page.php). But I need to use the custom page template, otherwise the rest of the page content is not displaying correctly.

I'm guessing something is missing in the template-page.php file:

get_header(); ?>
	<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
			<div class="wrapper">
				<div class="page-content<? if($curpage->post_parent != 0) { echo " subpage"; } ?>">
					<div class="cols">
						<div class="main-content" style="padding-top: 68px; float: right;">
							<?php
							    echo $curpage->post_content;
							?>
						</div>
					<?php
					    echo '<div class="navbar"><div class="box"><h2>';
					    if($curpage->post_parent == 0) {
						echo get_the_title();
					    }
					    else {
						$parent = get_page($curpage->post_parent);
						echo $parent->post_title;
					    }
					    echo '</h2><ul class="nav-list">';
					    $args = array("sort_column" => "menu_order");
					    $pages = get_pages($args);
					    foreach ( $pages as $pagg ) {
						if(($curpage->post_parent == 0 && $pagg->post_parent == get_the_ID()) || ($curpage->post_parent != 0 && $pagg->post_parent == $curpage->post_parent)) {
						    $option = '<li><a ';
						    if(get_the_ID() == $pagg->ID) {
							$option .= 'class="selected" ';
						    }
						    $option .= 'href="'.get_page_link( $pagg->ID ).'">';
						    $option .= $pagg->post_title;
						    $option .= ' »</a></li>';
						    echo $option;
	    				        }
					    }
					    echo '</ul></div></div>';
					?>
					    <div class="navbar brownbox" style="background-color: #2b2223; clear: left;"><div class="box" style="background-color: #2b2223; padding-bottom: 10px;">
						<?=get_post_meta($post->ID, 'brownbox', true);?>
					    </div></div>
					</div>
				</div>
			</div>
			<script type="text/javascript">
			    if(jQuery('.brownbox > div').html().replace(/\s/g,'') == '') {
				jQuery('.brownbox').remove();
			    }
			    jQuery('#main').css('background-image','url(<?=preg_replace("/^.*?src=\"([^\"]*)\".*?$/","$1",get_the_post_thumbnail( $post->ID, 'big-thumb' ));?>)');
			</script>
		<?php endwhile; ?>
	<?php else : ?>
		<div class="wrapper">
			<div class="page-title">
				<h1>Not Found</h1>
			</div>
			<div class="page-content">
				<p>Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn't here.</p>
			</div>
		</div>
	<?php endif; ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

I don't know a lot about php though, so I can't figure out how to fix this. Any ideas?

Cheers

https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/