Shortcodes in WordPress Widgets

I was setting up a new WordPress site on a theme I purchased, and got aggravated that I couldn’t seem to use the shortcodes included with the theme within text widgets. Google to the rescue.

If you go to edit your theme’s functions.php file, add this line:

add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

You’ll be able to use shortcodes to your heart’s content. Credits go here and here.