How to add the contact form as a sidebar widget:
1. Login to your blog’s administration pages and go to the Theme
Editor — i.e. select Appearance >> Editor from the admin menu.
2. Look in the list of Template Files on the right of the page for one
called Theme Functions or functions.php and click on it to load it
into the editor.
3. Find a place between the <?php and ?> tags which is not in the
middle one of the functions that may already be in the file (the very
top or bottom of the file are both good places) and add the following
line:
add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');
4. Click on the Update File button to save the modified template.
That’s all you need to do. Now any shortcodes you add to a sidebar
widget will be correctly processed by the plugin they belong to. The
easiest way to test this is as follows:
1. Go to Appearance >> Widgets using the administration menu.
2. Find the Text widget in the list on the left, and click its Add
button.
3. Click on the new widget’s Edit link, and enter a title for the
widget and then add the shortcode below it.
4. Click the Change button, then click the Save Changes button (easy
to forget) and then go to the front page of your blog to see your new
shortcode-enabled widget.
(Note: your theme must support widgets for the new text widget to show
up. If it doesn’t then you will have to “widgetize” your theme or find
another theme that does support widgets.)
