I have three workers and want to be able to click on a button for that woker and have a form popup with that worker as the default. I'm trying to do it with ajax using the following code in my functions.php file: add_action('wp_ajax_appointment_shortcode', 'appointment_shortcode'); add_action('wp_ajax_nopriv_appointment_shortcode', 'appointment_shortcode'); function appointment_shortcode() { echo '<div class="appointment-modal">'; echo do_shortcode('[ea_bootstrap layout_cols="2"]'); echo '</div>'; wp_die(); } This just returns the shortcode text, not the form. Why would that be? I've tested other shortcodes and they work just fine.   Thanks.