Shortcodes in Category Descriptions and AMP Article Exclusion

Hi,

I’ve come back to Newsmag for my new website. All has gone well but I have a couple of questions relating to the theme.

1. I have implemented the filter within a child theme functions.php to enable shortcodes to work in the description of a post category. However, they don’t execute. I am using the MEKS Easy Maps plugin for location sensitive posts. Usually, this would work out of the box without a shortcode, but it doesn’t with this theme. So I thought I would try the shortcode option, but this doesn’t work either. I’m wondering if there is something within this theme that stops shortcodes working, even with the filter added to the functions.php.

This is the filter I am using:

add_filter( 'category_description', 'do_shortcode' );

2. AMP Theme – using the AMP Theme is it possible to exclude categories from showing in the Latest Articles and also on the Front Page Grid. While we can do this on the main website, we can’t with the AMP Theme. It would be useful to be able to filter out some pages, that we don’t want to appear on the front page of the AMP versions too.

Thanks

Mike

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