Title: [Plugin: RSSImport] Using shortcode in text widgets
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: RSSImport] Using shortcode in text widgets

 *  [amahou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amahou/)
 * (@amahou)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-rssimport-using-shortcode-in-text-widgets/)
 * I was having trouble displaying my RSS feeds using a text widget. The solution
   I found is to add the following line of code to your theme/child theme’s functions.
   php file.
    Add: add_filter(‘widget_text’, ‘do_shortcode’);
 * That fixed my problem!
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 * Last reply from: [amahou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amahou/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-rssimport-using-shortcode-in-text-widgets/)
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