How to add a closing shortcode to WordPress template file?

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Okay, so you can add shortcodes to WP template files like: 

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

but what if the shortcode is intended to wrap around content like this:

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[my_awesome_shortcode]
Hey, this is the content within the awesome shortcode.
[/my_awesome_shortcode]

I’m a bit unsure how to put that into a template file.

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  1. The solution that worked for me was to combine shortcodes into a single string, so

    <?php echo do_shortcode('[my_awesome_shortcode]<h1>Hello world</h1>[/my_awesome_shortcode]'); ?>

    will work!

    If you have a long chain of shortcode commands you want to execute, create a separate string for them like this

    $shortcodes = '[row]';
    $shortcodes .= '[column width="2/3"]';
        $shortcodes .= 'Content';
    $shortcodes .= '[/column]';
    $shortcodes .= '[column width="1/3"]';
        $shortcodes .= 'More Content';
    $shortcodes .= '[/column]';
$shortcodes .= '[/row]';

    Then execute the entire thing like this

    <?php echo do_shortcode($shortcodes); ?>

  2. According to http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API#Enclosing_vs_self-closing_shortcodes

    adding $content = null to the shortcut function should do the trick:

    function my_awesome_shortcode_func( $atts, $content = null ) {
   return '<awesomeness>' . $content . '</awesomeness>';
}

add_shortcode( 'my_awesome_shortcode', 'my_awesome_shortcode_func' );

    so that:

    [my_awesome_shortcode]
Hey, this is the content within the awesome shortcode.
[/my_awesome_shortcode]

    would result in:

    <awesomeness>Hey, this is the content within the awesome shortcode.</awesomeness>