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  • OKay, taking some guidance from here: http://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/how-to-output-a-shortcode-in-an-input-field/

    I did this:

    <?php
    
    global $wp_query;
    $postid = $wp_query->post->ID;
    
    $trailer = get_field( "trailer" ); 
    
     echo do_shortcode("$trailer");
    
    ?>

    Now it is outputting the shortcode from the custom field and printing it, but it does not execute it. I changed the Formatting for the field to No Formatting, but all it did is return the shortcode’s square brackets as HTML entities.