Title: Process WP Shortcodes?
Last modified: March 31, 2017

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# Process WP Shortcodes?

 *  [sophia21](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sophia21/)
 * (@sophia21)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/process-wp-shortcodes/)
 * Hi,
 * Does the plugin process WP shortcodes?
 * I’m asking because when I try to use plugins like Ad Inserter and Advanced Ads
   to show Adsense ads on my blog, the ads don’t display.
 * Instead, the shortcodes produced by those plugins show up in the content.
 * Any way to get around this?
 * Thank you in advance!
 * Sophia

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 *  [Thomas Maier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webzunft/)
 * (@webzunft)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/process-wp-shortcodes/#post-8979407)
 * Hi sophia21,
 * here is Thomas, the developer of Advanced Ads.
 * It happens often that shortcodes are not enabled for custom input fields in themes
   and plugins, so I hope it is ok that I leave this link to a post I wrote to enable
   shortcodes in category descriptions.
 * [https://webgilde.com/en/shortcode-not-working-category-description/](https://webgilde.com/en/shortcode-not-working-category-description/)
 * Maybe this helps the guys from Pagination For Posts to find a quick fix for you.
 * Best,
    Thomas
 *  Thread Starter [sophia21](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sophia21/)
 * (@sophia21)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/process-wp-shortcodes/#post-8981083)
 * Hi Thomas,
 * Thank you for your inputs.
 * As mentioned on the page you linked to above, I added this line to the functions.
   php file on my test blog:
    add_filter( ‘term_description’, ‘do_shortcode’ );
 * It seems to make no difference whatsoever – the ads don’t show up when using 
   pagination. The shortcodes do.
 * Of course, this could be because I have no idea about coding and may have added
   the line at an inappropriate place. I added it somewhere in the middle of the
   file like so:
 * (Lots of code above this line)
    wp_enqueue_script( ‘comment-reply’ ); } } add_action(‘
   wp_enqueue_scripts’, ‘write_scripts’ );
 * add_filter( ‘term_description’, ‘do_shortcode’ );
 * /**
    * Add customizer style to the header. */ (Lots of code below this line too)
 * I’m not using the Yoast plugin on my test blog, so that shouldn’t be the issue.
 * Anyhow, thank you once again for your inputs. I’m off to find some other solution
   for pagination and ad displays.
 * Sophia
 *  [Thomas Maier](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webzunft/)
 * (@webzunft)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/process-wp-shortcodes/#post-8981188)
 * Hi Sophia,
 * I am sorry that this didn’t help. It was more a thought for the devs of the Pagination
   plugin. They should know how to adapt it and whether this is possible at all.
 * Thomas

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