{"id":75701,"date":"2012-04-04T13:30:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T17:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wpmu.org\/?p=75701"},"modified":"2013-04-27T15:13:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T19:13:22","slug":"daily-tip-use-shortcodes-in-sidebar-widgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/daily-tip-use-shortcodes-in-sidebar-widgets\/","title":{"rendered":"Use Shortcodes in WordPress Sidebar Widgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/widgets_folder.png\" alt=\"Post image\" aria-hidden=\"true\" title=\"widgets_folder\" width=\"128\" height=\"128\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-75707\" \/>Awhile back I posted a tutorial on <a href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/daily-tip-how-to-use-shortcodes-in-wordpress-text-widgets\/\" target=\"_blank\">how to use shortcodes in WordPress text widgets<\/a>. This is easy enough, but if you don&#8217;t want to edit your theme&#8217;s functions.php file, you can actually install a plugin to do it for you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/extend\/plugins\/use-shortcodes-in-sidebar-widgets\/\" target=\"_blank\">Use Shortcodes in Sidebar Widgets<\/a> is a new plugin that you can easily add from your WordPress dashboard to turn on shortcodes in sidebar widgets. No need to edit any files, just activate it and you&#8217;ll have this in place, even if you change your WordPress theme.<\/p>\n<p>Need to use shortcodes outside of the post editor? Follow our quick tutorial:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/daily-tip-how-to-use-a-wordpress-shortcode-outside-of-the-post-editor\/\" target=\"_blank\">How to Use a WordPress Shortcode Outside of the Post Editor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This super handy little plugin turns on shortcodes so that you can use them in any widgetized area of your WordPress site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4099,"featured_media":54337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"blog_reading_time":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_tutorials_categories":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1081,52],"tutorials_categories":[],"class_list":["post-75701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plugins","tag-shortcodes","tag-widgets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75701"},{"taxonomy":"tutorials_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpmudev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tutorials_categories?post=75701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}