Title: [Plugin: OptionTree] allow shortcodes in textarea
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: OptionTree] allow shortcodes in textarea

 *  Resolved [Paul de Wouters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pauldewouters/)
 * (@pauldewouters)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-optiontree-allow-shortcodes-in-textarea/)
 * I’d like to enable the use of shortcodes in the text areas. For example, when
   I use OptionTree with a genesis child theme, there are shortcodes available for
   use in the footer text, so if I make the footer text editable with an option,
   I’d like to take advantage of the shortcodes. at the moment, it just renders 
   the shortcode without executing it.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/option-tree/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/option-tree/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Derek Herman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/valendesigns/)
 * (@valendesigns)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-optiontree-allow-shortcodes-in-textarea/#post-1910285)
 * In you theme use the following code to render the shortcode:
 * `echo apply_filters('the_content', $textarea);`
 * Where `$textarea` is the value of your saved textarea from a `get_option_tree()`
   function call. Hope that helps. I’ll look into a more permanent solution during
   the next development cycle.
 *  Thread Starter [Paul de Wouters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pauldewouters/)
 * (@pauldewouters)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-optiontree-allow-shortcodes-in-textarea/#post-1910323)
 * thanks Derek
 *  [Jesper Johansen (jayjdk)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jayjdk/)
 * (@jayjdk)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-optiontree-allow-shortcodes-in-textarea/#post-1910419)
 * or `echo do_shortcode( $textarea );`
 *  Plugin Author [Derek Herman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/valendesigns/)
 * (@valendesigns)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-optiontree-allow-shortcodes-in-textarea/#post-1910429)
 * Jayjdk option is better.

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 * Last reply from: [Derek Herman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/valendesigns/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-optiontree-allow-shortcodes-in-textarea/#post-1910429)
 * Status: resolved