Allow shortcodes in category pages

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Oxidesign
#44123
Apr 7, 2015 at 7:48 pm

Hello,

There is a solution to add shortcode to a category page on description ?

It’s not working, even when i add add_filter( ‘category_description’, ‘do_shortcode’ ); to functions.php.

Thank you,
Best regards,

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Lucian
#44221
Apr 8, 2015 at 1:42 pm

Hi,

Add the do_shortcode function to the category description variable like this: http://screencast.com/t/C9mIcDfS6

Thanks

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Oxidesign
#44241
Apr 8, 2015 at 2:53 pm

Thank you Lucian. That’s what i want, it’s working.

Regards

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Kalepo
#44725
Apr 13, 2015 at 2:41 pm

@Lucian
Could you explain, where exactly place add add_filter( ‘category_description’, ‘do_shortcode’ ); in the file you describe?
I need the shortcodes to pimp my category description, but unfortunately I am not a PHP specialist…

Thank you in advance.

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Lucian
#44838
Apr 14, 2015 at 1:39 pm

Hi,

You don’t need to add that filter.
Just add this code: http://pastebin.com/FweufJa9 to the page-category-slider.php file like this: http://screencast.com/t/JrYFkGsbK

Thanks

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Kalepo
#44875
Apr 14, 2015 at 4:36 pm

@Lucian
This worked perfectly.

Thank you very much Lucian!

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Torge
#76692
Oct 29, 2015 at 5:32 pm

Hi Lucian,

I just upgraded to Newsletter v6 and I couldn’t find the right place to tweak the code so that the shortcodes are working in the category description again. Could you maybe update your solution so that it works in v6? That would really be much appreciated.

Edit: I just answered my own question. Found the right place to change in includes/wp_booster/td_category_template.php. There change line 175 to

return '<div class="td-category-description"><p>' . do_shortcode($this->current_category_obj->description) . '</p></div>';

Thanks & best,
Torge

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