Title: [Plugin: Advanced Text Widget] Does not work with shortcode
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Advanced Text Widget] Does not work with shortcode

 *  Resolved [Treebeard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malawimama/)
 * (@malawimama)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-advanced-text-widget-does-not-work-with-shortcode/)
 * I am only trying to add shortcode, not PHP code and on the frontend all I see
   the the shortcode itself. Am I doing something wrong?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-text-widget/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-text-widget/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Max Chirkov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maxchirkov/)
 * (@maxchirkov)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-advanced-text-widget-does-not-work-with-shortcode/#post-2789316)
 * Shortcodes should work just fine – I just checked on my own site and they do 
   work. Make sure your shortcode is correct (no misspellings) and the plugins that
   is responsible for it is active.
 *  Thread Starter [Treebeard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malawimama/)
 * (@malawimama)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-advanced-text-widget-does-not-work-with-shortcode/#post-2789343)
 * Thanks, actually I copied/pasted the shortcode from the settings page for that
   plugin. I ended up just using an Include to load a page that contained the shortcode
   instead, and it works fine. It wasn’t working from the widget though for some
   reason, I just thought you should know.
 * Thanks again for getting back to me.
 *  Plugin Author [Max Chirkov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maxchirkov/)
 * (@maxchirkov)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-advanced-text-widget-does-not-work-with-shortcode/#post-2789387)
 * Can you try a shortcode from a different plugin or a core shortcode like [gallery
   id="xx"] – where xx is the ID of the post to which a gallery attached. I just
   tried it again on my home dev machine (my previous test was on a live server)
   and it worked again as well. Therefore I’m not exactly sure where the bottleneck
   in your case.
 *  Thread Starter [Treebeard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malawimama/)
 * (@malawimama)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-advanced-text-widget-does-not-work-with-shortcode/#post-2789459)
 * I have some shortcodes from other plugins in use, WP FAQ is working with a shortcode.
   I also have some other plugins that might be conflicting somehow? I’m using More
   Fields, Magic Fields, Use Shortcoes in Sidebar Widgets, for instance. I’ve used
   Ultimate TinyMCE many times with some of these other plugins but never installed
   add-ons with it. So far, this is the only one causing the issue.
 * I’m going to try uploading an editorstyle.css file and see if that changes anything.
 *  Thread Starter [Treebeard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malawimama/)
 * (@malawimama)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-advanced-text-widget-does-not-work-with-shortcode/#post-2789460)
 * That didn’t work either. And I noticed something else odd, when I’m in the editor
   in Visual Mode, I highlighted the text to see what was there and I can see HTML
   in the editor, so that was very strange.
 * I don’t know what else to do at this point.
 *  Thread Starter [Treebeard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malawimama/)
 * (@malawimama)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-advanced-text-widget-does-not-work-with-shortcode/#post-2789461)
 * I made some progress with this (sorry for so many posts!)
 * I figured out what was happening with the editor: I had problems with my Arrays–
   forgot to add the beginning “Array (” since I have more than one, and the ending“)”
   but now I’m running into another problem, which I will post in a new thread since
   it’s unrelated to editor issues.

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 * Last reply from: [Treebeard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malawimama/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-advanced-text-widget-does-not-work-with-shortcode/#post-2789461)
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