clawler

I was able to get [caption] working, or at least I didn’t see the shortcode. Still, not sure why the other shortcodes do not work. Will only [caption] and [gallery] work in the text-widget?

In either case I found a work-around for my larger issue, thanks for the help.

No way! I can’t just stick things in brackets to [make-it-magically-work]!?

I haven’t tried those exactly but I did try five or six off of the WordPress shortcode list: https://en.support.wordpress.com/shortcodes/. The one I’d assume would work was [archives] because even the WordPress support page says that it should work in a text widget (https://en.support.wordpress.com/archives-shortcode/). I’ve tried it with specific plugin shortcodes as well (i.e. soliloquy and tubepress).

Thought that one of the plugins might of been effecting it but I’ve deactivated all of them and still no luck.

Thanks alchymyth, just wanted to see if a solution ever presented itself.

Right now I’m using Twenty Eleven in 3.4.2 and it’s with any shortcode I try. I’m also using one of the many single line Shortcode in Widget plugins. I’ve also tried putting add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode'); in the functions file myself, but that didn’t work either.

Any recommendations?

While this semantics argument was entertaining was a solution to this issue ever found? I’m having the same problem.

Smoore217, did you end up posting this issue elsewhere? Any luck?

Thanks.

Christyk, thanks for trying to figure it out. I ended up moving on long ago but will now definitely go back to see if I can get it working because it seems incredibly useful for things like portfolios and the like.