Shortcoder Shortcodes in Text Widget ? | WordPress.org

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(@einstem)

10 years, 11 months ago

I use this plugin on my site as a way to save a lot of time in creating posts.

But I have not been able to get shortcodes to work in a text widget in my sidebar – they just display the shortcode name and don’t execute the shortcode information.

Is there a way to get these to work in a text widget in the sidebar?

Thanks.

Michael

https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcoder/

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Mizagorn
(@mizagorn)

10 years, 10 months ago

Try this:

http://englishmike.net/2008/07/07/wordpress-quick-tips-3adding-a-shortcode-to-a-sidebar-widget/

Thread Starter einstem
(@einstem)

10 years, 10 months ago

Thanks.

I ended-up finding a plugin that works like a text widget but supports shortcodes:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcode-widget/

Amazing that wordpress text widget doesn’t do this by default, and I wanted to avoid modifying my theme code if I could help it, so this little plugin worked great.

Thanks.

Michael

Thread Starter einstem
(@einstem)

10 years, 10 months ago

I was (finally) able to figure out how to add this to my fuctions.php file and now I can use shortcodes in a text widget and don’t need the custom widget anymore.

Amazing that this is standard functionality in WordPress!

Michael

Mizagorn
(@mizagorn)

10 years, 10 months ago

Thanks for the feedback, good info. Yes, that seems to be a common complaint about WP. One good thing in that regard, though, is that you got some experience geeking up functions.php. I found it to be pretty cool once I got my head wrapped around how all that works. 🙂

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