Title: Inserting filter with shortcode (or php code)
Last modified: April 25, 2021

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# Inserting filter with shortcode (or php code)

 *  [Ulcecurce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ulcecurce/)
 * (@ulcecurce)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inserting-filter-with-shortcode-or-php-code/)
 * Hi, can i insert this filter not with using widget, but with using shortcode 
   or php code? Thanks

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 *  Thread Starter [Ulcecurce](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ulcecurce/)
 * (@ulcecurce)
 * [5 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/inserting-filter-with-shortcode-or-php-code/#post-14361626)
 * So, i found the solution. Just add this code to theme’s functions.php file:
 *     ```
       // this creates a widget shortcode functionality (use with [widget widget_name="WCAPF_Active_Filters_Widget"] shortcode)
   
       function widget($atts) {
   
       global $wp_widget_factory;
   
       extract(shortcode_atts(array(
       'widget_name' => FALSE
       ), $atts));
   
       $widget_name = wp_specialchars($widget_name);
   
       if (!is_a($wp_widget_factory->widgets[$widget_name], 'WP_Widget')):
       $wp_class = 'WP_Widget_'.ucwords(strtolower($class));
   
       if (!is_a($wp_widget_factory->widgets[$wp_class], 'WP_Widget')):
       return '<p>'.sprintf(__("%s: Widget class not found. Make sure this widget exists and the class name is correct"),'<strong>'.$class.'</strong>').'</p>';
       else:
       $class = $wp_class;
       endif;
       endif;
   
       ob_start();
       the_widget($widget_name, $instance, array('widget_id'=>'arbitrary-instance-'.$id,
       'before_widget' => '',
       'after_widget' => '',
       'before_title' => '',
       'after_title' => ''
       ));
       $output = ob_get_contents();
       ob_end_clean();
       return $output;
   
       }
       add_shortcode('widget','widget');
       ```
   
 * And after that we can use shortcodes like [widget widget_name=”WCAPF_Active_Filters_Widget”]
   or [widget widget_name=”WCAPF_Category_Filter_Widget”] or [widget widget_name
   =”WCAPF_Price_Filter_Widget”] in our pages.

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