Should the shortcodes work in sidebar text widget?

  • Resolved Snow

    (@snowdemon)


    11 years, 5 months ago

    I’m on the latest version of the plugin and WP. I’ve done a little searching around the Worpit pages for the plugin and read the support items here, and I don’t find any mention of this.

    I assumed the shortcodes would work just as well in the sidebar as in the main content area, until I pasted code that is working in the content area to a sidebar text widget, and it just displays the code as text.

    It’s entirely possible I’m missing something obvious. Any help you can give me will be greatly appreciated!

    Thank you,

    ~Snow

    http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-bootstrap-css/

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  • Plugin Author Paul

    (@paultgoodchild)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Hi,

    Thanks for getting in touch.

    You’re not the first person to ask this and I’m starting to think I should put the option within my plugin itself.

    Enabling shortcodes within the sidebar widgets is a WordPress configuration setting.

    Here is the fundamental solution:
    http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-add-shortcodes-in-sidebar-widgets

    If you hold on though, I’ll release an update in a day or so that will provide this setting for you and solve this problem for everyone once and for all 🙂

    Thanks for asking the question. I’ll update this post once I release an update with this in it.

    Cheers,
    Paul.

    Plugin Author Paul

    (@paultgoodchild)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Okay, this is done! In version 2.1.1.1 there’s a new option to do this. 🙂

    Let me know how this works for you.
    Cheers,
    Paul.

    Plugin Author Paul

    (@paultgoodchild)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    sorry that should read: v2.2.1.1

    Thread Starter Snow

    (@snowdemon)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Hi Paul,

    Sorry for the delay, I’ve been on vacation the past week. I’ve downloaded the new version and will give it a spin tomorrow when I’m at work. I’ll report back if there are any problems.

    Thanks very much!

    ~Snow

    Thread Starter Snow

    (@snowdemon)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    Post-test report:

    Yes, it works! I just had to check the box for this new option (on the “Bootstrap CSS” settings page) and then I tested a bit of code in the sidebar and it worked perfectly!

    Thanks very much!

    ~Snow

    worpit

    (@worpit)

    11 years, 5 months ago

    No problem! Glad it worked for you.

    Would you mind, if you had a spare moment, giving the plugin a nice positive (5*?) rating on the WordPress.org repository?

    It helps just lend some support/legitimacy to the plugin to reassure other users.

    Many thanks,
    Paul.

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