In WordPress, you can use shortcodes in the content of your pages and posts. Unfortunately, when you attempt to use shortcodes in Widgets, it won’t work properly — the WordPress default behavior is to output the text of the shortcode, instead of processing it:
[my-shortcode]
There is a way to enable shortcodes in widgets, comments, and excerpts in WordPress, by using the “do_shortcode” function. Add the following code to your functions.php file:
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// ENABLE SHORTCODES IN WIDGETS // add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode'); // SHORTCODES IN COMMENTS // add_filter( 'comment_text', 'do_shortcode' ); // SHORTCODES IN EXCERPTS // add_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'do_shortcode'); |
Now, when you go to use the shortcode, it will be processed on the page as expected.