gobwriters

Okay I found the file under a manage themes area editor on the menu and it warns me very sternly to backup the functions.php first … as did you. Makes sense, but how do I make a back-up copy?

Then I promise I will stop bugging you … unless you will let me contact you for dialogue tips in my future book where people talk in code:)

I couldn’t figure out how to do that – where/how do I find the functions.php file?

Okay, to be clear. The widget for daily quotes is not working AND the text widget method isn’t working because the shortcode isn’t working. And the shortcode isn’t working because I need to find out how to find the functions.php and input the filter code …

I put

add_filter(‘widget_text’, ‘do_shortcode’);

in “My Custom Functions” plug in.

Then what else am I supposed to do? What I did was put

[cw_daily_quotes cw_ds_id=”1″]

in a text widget because I thought the two above work together.
I only did this after I couldn’t get the daily quotes section widget to show up at all.

But they were working for months in the text widget. Until I started playing with things for this plugin. Is there someplace I should check to see if they are disabled? I do have other short codes however that are working in a menu item in customization that is called additional css. I think I need to get a programming degree:)

It wasn’t a plugin, it was a text widget coded to show quote category posts in the sidebar and yes I disabled it because it started showing the code and not the quote on the website. Plus I wanted to post quotes through cleverwise daily quotes.

I’m talking about the functions.php one as well as the shortcode to put in a text widget.

Yes I did place the shortcode that you had listed in the help area – that’s why I got a plugin that does that for me. Funny thing was that I had other shortcode in a text widget and somewhere in the process of doing all this it stopped working – but that was okay since it was a shortcode that showed my quotes posts in the side bar … which is what I got this plugin to replace.

1) In settings under general I clicked save changes.
2) Added a quote section and selected all categories.
3) No blank lines and I tested with 10+ quotes that the program repetitively filled in for the year.

I also removed and added the widget after all changes. I also attempted to insert as a text widget and added the function php after getting a php inserter plugin.

I think my theme might be somehow still connected to wordpress.com – I migrated over to www.ads-software.com a while back, with outside help so I’m not exactly sure how it was set up. Could this be a problem?