Title: shortcode on category description
Last modified: January 11, 2018

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# shortcode on category description

 *  Resolved [daspi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daspi/)
 * (@daspi)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-on-category-description/)
 * I am trying to put a shortcode category description to display a custom menu.
   I use the plugin Widgets on Pages. It works perfectly on regular pages and even
   on a woocommerce product when put in the description field. Just not on a category
   or tag description. Not working, meaning the page will not load after putting
   the short code there. Just blank. [widgets_on_pages id=1] is what I try to place.
   Sanitation or stripping code issue?
 * Found some info and tried this in my functions.php
    add_filter( ‘term_description’,‘
   do_shortcode’ );
 * Not working ether. Please help.

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 *  [Dustin Hartzler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dustinhartzler/)
 * (@dustinhartzler)
 * Automattic Happiness Engineer
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-on-category-description/#post-9982805)
 * If a page is totally blank, then this usually results in an error on the server
   and there will be a server log with information describing what’s going on.
 * Can you take a look at the logs and let us know?

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-on-category-description/#post-9982805)
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