Shortcodes in Widgets do not work?

  • Resolved MrFerriero

    (@mrferriero)


    9 years, 1 month ago

    Hello! I just created a new theme for my site and suddenly the shortcodes do not work for wp-members – any ideas?
    I’ve removed them for now other than the one at the bottom of my Privacy Policy page (before footer)
    http://juniordrama.com/jr/privacy-policy/

    This widget was in my footer and showed if a person was logged in or if they needed to login.

    I’m assuming it has something to do with my new theme since it works fine in the other one 🙂
    Thanks for the help!
    – Joe

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  • Plugin Author Chad Butler

    (@cbutlerjr)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    This is a result of your theme. WP does not parse shortcodes in widgets, comments, or excerpts. Some themes will add this to the theme and other do not. So whether you can use shortcodes in widgets depends on the theme.

    You can add shortcode parsing to your theme’s text widgets pretty easily:
    http://rocketgeek.com/shortcodes/adding-shortcodes-to-other-locations/

    Thread Starter MrFerriero

    (@mrferriero)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks! I added that to my functions.php but still not working 🙁

    Wondering – is there a plugin that would allow shortcodes. Not sure why my new theme doesn’t allow!

    Thread Starter MrFerriero

    (@mrferriero)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    So my shortcodes for other plugins work in the widgets – just not Wp-Members. Any other ideas? Thanks for the help!!

    Thread Starter MrFerriero

    (@mrferriero)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    OK – nevermind! Ugh so sorry! I just realized I created my own shortcodes in my last theme that I didn’t make in my new one!

    Plugin Author Chad Butler

    (@cbutlerjr)

    9 years, 1 month ago

    Glad you worked it out.

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