3
Aug

WordPress | Adding shortcodes to your widget area

By Mark
InspectorWidget

WordPress is a brilliant blogging platform, as well as an excellent Content Management System for websites. Layouts and themes/templates are really simple to integrate but sometimes you just wish you could install a good plugin and put its content in your sidebars/footer widget areas. Well now you can!

All it takes is 3 easy steps.

  1. Add this single line to your functions.php file:-
    add_filter(‘widget_text’, ‘do_shortcode’);
  2. In the Appearance->Widgets section, drag a Text widget to whichever widget area you want the content to appear and give it a Title
  3. Put your shortcode in the large content area of the text/html widget and click SAVE.

Your done. Simple!

 

Image courtesy of http://vdvector.deviantart.com/. Nice work Jose.

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