Title: Shortcode brackets showing
Last modified: August 12, 2019

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# Shortcode brackets showing

 *  Resolved [Andre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andre-jutras/)
 * (@andre-jutras)
 * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-brackets-showing/)
 * I’m building a theme and one of the things I toss in is a breadcrumbs sidebar
   where I use a text widget and then enter the shortcode
 * However, it seems to be buggy as it does show the breadcrumbs (functioning too),
   but before and after it’s displaying the square brackets:
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 * **NOTE**: Using the latest WP and the classic Editor. The block editor when using
   the shortcode block does work, but the classic editor…not 100%

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 *  Thread Starter [Andre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andre-jutras/)
 * (@andre-jutras)
 * [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-brackets-showing/#post-11826769)
 * Nevermind…my bad. I had the symbols coded in the widget.

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 * Last reply from: [Andre](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andre-jutras/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-brackets-showing/#post-11826769)
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