Title: Shortcode not working
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Shortcode not working

 *  Resolved [Nick Murray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickfmc/)
 * (@nickfmc)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-not-working-123/)
 * with allow shortcode in text widget turned on, the shortcode stopped working 
   in a do_shortcode echo and inside a text widget. the regular widget still works
   fine.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/archives-calendar-widget/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/archives-calendar-widget/)

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 *  Plugin Author [alek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alekart/)
 * (@alekart)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-not-working-123/#post-6378900)
 * Hi,
    Actually there is non need of to do `do_shortcode` just use the shortcode`[
   arcalendar next_text=>'>' prev_text=>'<' post_count=>"true" month_view=>"true""
   categories"=>"category1, category2", post_type=>"post, forum"]`.
 * AND
 * **Shorcode support will be deleted** (is deleted) **in the upcoming release**.
   I will not provide any support for this feature any more. Sorry.
 *  Thread Starter [Nick Murray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickfmc/)
 * (@nickfmc)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-not-working-123/#post-6378908)
 * no worries I just registered a sidebar where I needed it!
 * sorry should have been more clear, the do_shortcode I had in my theme files directly
   in PHP. The text widget I tried when that failed was as you show above without
   the do_shortcode.
 *  Plugin Author [alek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alekart/)
 * (@alekart)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-not-working-123/#post-6378918)
 * I don’t understand. Do you use the shortcode in the PHP code with do_shortcode
   
   instead of using the function ?
 *     ```
       $args = array(
           'next_text' => '˃',
           'prev_text' => '˂',
           'post_count' => true,
           'month_view' => true,
           'month_select' => 'default',
           'different_theme' => 0, // set 1 (true) if you want to set a different theme for this widget
           'theme' => null, // theme 'name' if 'different_theme' == true
           'categories' => null, // array() -> list of categories to show
           'post_type' => null // array() -> list of post types to show
       );
       archive_calendar($args);
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [Nick Murray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickfmc/)
 * (@nickfmc)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-not-working-123/#post-6378925)
 * I had just used the shortcode yes, didn’t see there was a function for it. either
   way it worked and doesn’t seem to anywhere now using the shortcode for me. However
   if support is being dropped for the shortcode I guess its no worry.

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-not-working-123/#post-6378925)
 * Status: resolved