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Allow Shortcodes in Widgets and Excerpts

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Add the following code to your WordPress theme’s function.php file, or a functionality plugin to allow Shortcodes in Widgets and Excerpts

/** Allow shortcodes in the excerpt */
add_filter('the_excerpt', 'do_shortcode');

/** Allow shortcode in text widgets */
add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

by Jack Alltrade on March 5, 2017

Filed Under: Code Snippets, WordPress Core Tagged With: Code, Post Excerpt, Widgets, WP Core

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