Plugin only works when another unrelated plugin is active

  • Resolved starxedsteph

    (@starxedsteph)


    11 years, 1 month ago

    A kind of strange thing happened, and although it’s working now, I’d rather a different solution than what I’m doing currently.

    I installed text slider and got everything setup perfectly (just what I needed!). I then proceeded to remove some plugins that I wasn’t using, one of which was a different slider plugin, soliloquy. And then, Text Slider no longer worked. It displayed the shortcode as text on the page. When I reinstalled Soliloquy, it started working again.

    I’m using Genesis and have the shortcode inside of a front page widget.

    http://thompsonlaw.starxedsteph.com

    Thanks for your help!

    Stephanie

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/text-slider/

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  • Thread Starter starxedsteph

    (@starxedsteph)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    I realized that the Soliloquy plugin enabled shortcodes to work in widgets. Once I made the change to allow that independent of Soliloquy, I no longer had this issue.

    Plugin Author Maeve Lander

    (@enigmaweb)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    Cool, glad you worked out the issue starxedsteph and thanks for posting solution back here.

    For anyone else, if your theme does not already support shortcode in a text widget add this to your theme functions.php:

    add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

    Add this code above to fuctions.php between the <?php and ?> tags. A good place would be either at the very top or the very bottom of the file. Once you’ve done this you should be able to use shortcode in widgets now.

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