Simply pasting a shortcode into any of your widget areas generally won’t work. To enable the use of shortcodes in any text widget area, on any theme, simply add this code to your child themes functions.php file. add_filter( 'widget_text', 'shortcode_unautop'); add_filter( 'widget_text', 'do_shortcode'); This enables short codes in excerpts: add_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'shortcode_unautop'); add_filter( 'the_excerpt', 'do_shortcode'); […]