Snippet: Enable Shortcodes In Widgets and Post Titles
Shortcodes are one of the most popular feature of the WordPress. It allows you to trigger a function within the post contents. We posted number of shortcodes you can use. Couple of builtin shortcodes are [gallery] and [embed]. Unfortunately, shortcodes does not work in text widget where we often like to use them. To enable it, you just need to paste following snippet in your functions.php
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// Execute shortcodes in widget's text
add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');
// Execute shortcodes in post and meta title.
add_filter('the_title', 'do_shortcode');
add_filter('wp_title', 'do_shortcode');
