Shortcodes not working in widgets

  • scottzosel

    (@scottzosel)


    9 years, 11 months ago

    Hey, I really love, love, love your plugin. Works awesome on any page or post. However, I’ve tried to use it in widgets to get some of that awesome functionality, but it doesn’t seem to work. I’ve tried it in MCE visual editor, and straight up text widget.

    It would sure be nice to be able to use your functions in a widget area; I could just do so much more. If you know of a way to accomplish this that I’m missing, I’d sure appreciate the advice.

    I am using a parallax pro theme in the Genesis frame work if that sheds any light.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/wc-shortcodes/

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  • Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    to run shortcode in textwidgets, you might need to add this to functions.php of your theme:

    add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

    other widgets might require different fixes; please specify which widgets you have tried.

    Thread Starter scottzosel

    (@scottzosel)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    Funny, I’ve added this one.

    /* Allow shortcodes in widget areas */
    add_filter(‘widget_text’, ‘do_shortcode’);

    Did not work. Have you ever used these shortcodes in a widget?

    I’ve tried it in MCE visual editor, and a straight up text widget. Nothing else. Any other widget suggestions?

    Thread Starter scottzosel

    (@scottzosel)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    This is what happens.

    Michael

    (@alchymyth)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    what plugin are you using for the ‘MCE visual editor’ widget?

    Thread Starter scottzosel

    (@scottzosel)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    The [wc_row] code is from WP Canvas – Shortcodes, aas are all the other shortcodes I used on that page. From the MCE visual editor widget, I can use the WP Canvas – Shortcodes interface; from the straight up text widget, I place them manually.

    I am going to test this in another theme just for the heck of it.

    Thread Starter scottzosel

    (@scottzosel)

    9 years, 11 months ago

    Different site, used in homepage widgets (text widget)

    http://www.zoselco.com/

    Same codes used in a page..

    http://www.zoselco.com/test-test/

    FYI, also placed the

    add_filter(‘widget_text’, ‘do_shortcode’);

    yoyoma1974

    (@yoyoma1974)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    Also not working for me in Text/HTML widgets (also added the do_shortcode code to functions.php). Anyone else have any luck with this?

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