How to Use Shortcodes in text widget?

analystguy

Rather than using a php code widget, I would like to use shortcodes in a text widget.

Ideally, I would like to write my own shortcodes. Is there a resource I can use to show me how this is done in gknews?

A problem at the moment is despite adding
add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');
to the child functions.php file, I am not able to for example execute [gknsp] in a text widget. The widget just displays "[gknsp]"

Thanks
Dave

dominic

Hi analystguy,
At the moment, you can not use this shortcode, the theme and our widget does not support this shortcode, and you can not custom to use this shortcode.

analystguy

dominic

I am able to write functions and add shortcodes in functions.php then use shortcode in a text widget to display results.

analystguy

dominic

The issue I am having is that the shortcode executes and displays outside the div=textwidget container.
How can I ensure the textwidget container loads first?

The alternative is to include a div container and class references in the shortcode so that everything displays and works as it should from a viewer perspective. The issue with this is that I need to suppress the text widget title as it appears AFTER the shortcode runs.

Anything you can offer to fix is a help.

dominic

Hi analystguy,
You can try with the utilizing ob_start() and ob_end_clean. Please refer example here: http://snippi.com/s/czv8ikr

analystguy

dominic

Dominic:

The callback worked!

Thank you very much