Subscription Shortcode Broken

It appears to work in posts, but it no longer works in text widgets – which is where I need it. Hmmmm.

Hi there,

shortcodes won’t work in regular WordPress text widgets. Have a look at this plugin:

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/shortcodes-in-sidebar-widgets/

Or a quick Google gave me these sites with a way to code it yourself:

https://dannyvankooten.com/630/enabling-shortcodes-in-widgets-quick-wordpress-tip/
https://digwp.com/2010/03/shortcodes-in-widgets/
https://stephanieleary.com/2010/02/using-shortcodes-everywhere/

Well, it worked until about 10 or 15 days ago… ??

But I’ll research one of the other solutions you linked, thanks!!

Hmm, are you certain that didn’t just have the Subscription widget, instead of using the Shortcode? In fact, why don’t you use the widget? Is there a particular reason?

100% positive. My post width is 600px and I have one widget area directly below the content, above the comments. Using some div tags and my theme’s hooks, I split a single text widget into two 300px wide areas – one side presents a 300×250 ad unit and the other displayed the Jetpack subscription form via shortcode.

Anyhow, modifying my functions.php with the info from that dannyvankooten link you provided resolved the issue. But hopefully I haven’t reduced security in some way by doing so.

Thanks!

Ah, so it sounds like you did more than just a basic Text Widget then, which probably explains it somehow.

As for security, no, that should have no impact on security. Glad you worked it out!

It’s pretty basic… Here’s what in my Text widget:

<div class="row-fluid">
<div class="span6">
*ad code here*
</div>
<div class="span6">
[jetpack_subscription_form]
</div>
</div>