TJ Singleton

Software Engineer, Baptist Preacher

How to Use Shortcodes in Widgets

Want to use shortcodes in your text widget? Just add this snippet to your functions file.

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add_filter('widget_text', 'shortcode_widgets');
function shortcode_widgets($widget_text) {
  ob_start();
  do_shortcode($widget_text);
  $captured_content = ob_get_contents();
  ob_end_clean();
  return $captured_content;
}