There are simple ways to Enable Shortcode in Widget Area. Using WordPress, there are almost unlimited possibilities, one nice featured that you should learn and uses is Shortcode. With WordPress shortcode, WordPress content writer will be more easier to put some extra ordinary content into WordPress website.
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Right now, I will show you tiny trick to Enable Shortoce on Widget in your Theme. To use this features, your theme must widget support. After you understand that your theme widget support.
Open your functions.php and put on this code
add_filter('widget_text','do_shortcode');
That’s it, add_filter will be filter your text widget. So, when you put some shortcode (example [ gallery ] in your text widget. The code will be processed by WordPress system. Another useful source about shortcode here
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thanks a lot for that tip! even though it’s “only” a simple function call it was driving me insane because i couldn’t find out why my shortcodes would not work within a sidebar while working perfectly within pages or posts.