Display Shortcodes in Widgets – WordPress snippet
Many of us use plugins that are displayed trough shortcodes.
You know what shortcodes are, don’t you?
They are keywords in
[square brackets] that do something special, return a string or call a plugin.
When we need to display shortcodes in widgets though, they simply don’t work.
Well … here is the simple snippet to make them work !
in you functions.php just drop this piece of code.
<?php add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode') ?>
That’s how you display Shortcodes in widgets.