Title: [Plugin: Bowe Codes] Codes in widgets
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Bowe Codes] Codes in widgets

 *  Resolved [hkcharlie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hkcharlie/)
 * (@hkcharlie)
 * [13 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bowe-codes-codes-in-widgets/)
 * I can’t see how to make the codes work in a widget, am I missing some instruction?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bowe-codes/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bowe-codes/)

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 *  [Mathieu Viet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imath/)
 * (@imath)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bowe-codes-codes-in-widgets/#post-2986763)
 * Hello,
 * You need to add the shortcode in a text widget and then add 2 filters in order
   to tell WordPress to do shortcode in your text widgets :
 *     ```
       add_filter( 'widget_text', 'shortcode_unautop');
       add_filter( 'widget_text', 'do_shortcode');
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [hkcharlie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hkcharlie/)
 * (@hkcharlie)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bowe-codes-codes-in-widgets/#post-2986764)
 * …..and where do the filters go ?
 *  [Mathieu Viet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imath/)
 * (@imath)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bowe-codes-codes-in-widgets/#post-2986772)
 * in the functions.php of your active theme for example…

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 * [code](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/code/)
 * [widget](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/widget/)

 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Mathieu Viet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imath/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bowe-codes-codes-in-widgets/#post-2986772)
 * Status: resolved