Title: [Plugin: Display Posts Shortcode] Call the plugin without Shortcode
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Display Posts Shortcode] Call the plugin without Shortcode

 *  Resolved [cbmark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cbmark/)
 * (@cbmark)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-display-posts-shortcode-call-the-plugin-without-shortcode/)
 * Hi, I am wanting to use Display Posts on a sidebar without a widget. I just wondered
   how I could call it without the shortcode. I understand this is kinda against
   the objective of the plugin but I do use the shortcode elsewhere and would rather
   have 1 plugin not 2 doing effectively the same thing.
 * Thanks 🙂
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Bill Erickson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billerickson/)
 * (@billerickson)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-display-posts-shortcode-call-the-plugin-without-shortcode/#post-2302766)
 * I’d recommend simply turning on shortcodes for your sidebar widgets, and then
   you could do it by dropping the shortcode in a text widget.
 * Add this to your theme’s functions.php file:
 *     ```
       add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');
       ```
   
 * This will be a built-in feature of WordPress with the next version: [http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10457](http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10457)

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 * Last reply from: [Bill Erickson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billerickson/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-display-posts-shortcode-call-the-plugin-without-shortcode/#post-2302766)
 * Status: resolved