Title: Include shortcode within descriptions
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Include shortcode within descriptions

 *  [Paul Skip Brown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paul-skip-brown/)
 * (@paul-skip-brown)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-shortcode-within-descriptions/)
 * Hi, I have enabled functionality to include shortcode within category descriptions
   and it works great. Unfortunately because the plugin is rendered via a shortcode
   I would need to enable shortcode functionality within the shortcode. I’ve created
   a folder in my theme and copied `mctagmap_functions.php` to it. I searched for
   all instances of `$mctagmap_description = '<span class="tagDescription">'` and
   amended it from
 * `$mctagmap_description = '<span class="tagDescription">' . $tag->description .'
   </span>';`
 * to
 * `$mctagmap_description = '<span class="tagDescription">' . $tag->description .
   do_shortcode($content) . '</span>';`
 * but it doesn’t run the nested shortcode. I may be going about this wrong but 
   is anyone able to assist me?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/multi-column-tag-map/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/multi-column-tag-map/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Paul Skip Brown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paul-skip-brown/)
 * (@paul-skip-brown)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-shortcode-within-descriptions/#post-5303010)
 * That should start ‘I have enabled functionality to include shortcode within tag
   descriptions…’ apologies 🙂

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 * [description](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/description/)
 * [shortcode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shortcode/)

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 * Last reply from: [Paul Skip Brown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paul-skip-brown/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/include-shortcode-within-descriptions/#post-5303010)
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