Title: Process shortcodes?
Last modified: September 23, 2019

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# Process shortcodes?

 *  Resolved [Nazar Hotsa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bugnumber9/)
 * (@bugnumber9)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/process-shortcodes/)
 * Hello,
 * I gather shortcodes aren’t being processed in manually created tables?
    That’s
   a bummer… Is there any way to enable shortcode processing? This is a vital feature
   and we were going to buy the Pro version, but I don’t think this feature is available
   in Pro either?
 * Thanks.

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 *  Plugin Author [wpDataTables](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpdatatables/)
 * (@wpdatatables)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/process-shortcodes/#post-11960299)
 * Hi there.
 * There’s an option to parse shortcode in strings. You need to enable this slider
   in main settings of wpDataTables before you’re able to use shortcodes inside 
   the tables.
 * This feature is available both in Lite and full version of the plugin.
 * Best regards.
 *  Thread Starter [Nazar Hotsa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bugnumber9/)
 * (@bugnumber9)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/process-shortcodes/#post-11963464)
 * Hey, can’t believe I overlooked that option. Thanks!
 * However, I have a new issue now 🙂
    Basically, my shortcodes produce numbers (
   results of some calculations). Now, when I try to build a chart using the column
   with shortcodes – it won’t let me do that because it sees cell values as strings.
   I do have a different column with strings already (names). The column with shortcodes
   I’m referring to has numbers (think KPIs), but the plugin won’t allow me to use
   it in the chart because it’s set to string. Which kinda kills the whole purpose…
 * Is there any way to override this behavior? Like a filter I can hook into? Happy
   to modify plugin code for the time being, but that would be the last resort.

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 * Last reply from: [Nazar Hotsa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bugnumber9/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/process-shortcodes/#post-11963464)
 * Status: resolved