Shortcode in a Widget

[Anonymous]

I was just curious what your thoughts were on adding

if (!is_admin()) add_filter(‘widget_text’, ‘do_shortcode’, SHORTCODE_PRIORITY);

to your plugin so that people could run the shortcode from text widgets. I just added it to my theme’s functions.php file but thought it’d be useful for your users to be able to run any combination as a widget.

RE: http://hackadelic.com/the-right-way-to-shortcodize-wordpress-widgets

Thanks again for all you do!

Andrew

[Franky]

Well, I could add it of course. Does this mean that people could use all the shortcodes outside pages, in widgets? An implementation example would be nice 🙂

[Franky]

Well, I won’t add this since it influences all widgets and all shortcodes and I don’t like it when my plugin changes generic behaviour. But the correct way to do it is either:

– add the following to your functions.php:

if (!is_admin()) add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode', 11);

– or use http://hackadelic.com/wordpress-online-tools/wordpress-tweaks-composer to create a small plugin that just activates this for you.

[Franky]

For reference: I added an option that allows this to to be set in the settings page (shortcodes in widgets)

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