Title: Shortcodes
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Shortcodes

 *  Resolved [blieben](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blieben/)
 * (@blieben)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-7/)
 * Great Plugin!!
 * Any way to get theme short codes to work within the editor?
 * Thanks!
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/categorytinymce/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/categorytinymce/)

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 *  Plugin Author [kevin heath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ypraise/)
 * (@ypraise)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-7/#post-3153419)
 * Hi
 * It should be possible to allow shortcodes by using the do_shortcode command somewhere.
 * I’ll take a look and try and get it running but it may a few days or a weeks 
   or so as I’m pretty busy at the moment.
 * If the place jumps to mind earlier then I’ll do an update.
 * thanks
    Kevin
 *  Plugin Author [kevin heath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ypraise/)
 * (@ypraise)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-7/#post-3153423)
 * As an emergency you could do this:
 * in your theme archive’php file or whichever file covers your category listings
   you will find :
 * `<p>'.category_description().'</p>';`
 * or something simialr to call the category description. You can get shortcodes
   to run by adding the do_shortcode() to it so:
 * `<p>'.do_shortcode(category_description()).'</p>';`
 * I will try and work it into the plugin somehow when I get the time.
 * Kevin
 *  Plugin Author [kevin heath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ypraise/)
 * (@ypraise)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-7/#post-3153491)
 * Hi
 * i’ve taken a little look at this and it’s not something that I think can be done
   through the plugin. I’ve had a look at some themes and different themes call 
   the category description in a different way so I can not use just a simple string
   replace for the category_description.
 * I think it’s just a question of doing the do_shortcode hack on your own theme
   files.
 * Sorry about that but I don’t think there is a way of doing this without messing
   up other themes etc.
 * Kevin
 *  Thread Starter [blieben](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blieben/)
 * (@blieben)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-7/#post-3153493)
 * Thanks for taking the time to look Kevin!

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcodes-7/#post-3153493)
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