Comments on: WordPress Quick Tips #3:Adding a Shortcode to a Sidebar Widget

By: Edna

Edna — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:38:43 +0000

I am trying to get the List shortcode to configure something resembling a page rather than a list. I am not coding person.

????wish I could answer all your questions but I have not fiqured out just what they are???

Can someone give me a code to do this?

Like list the catagories in different rows accross the post page?>>>???That is my question????

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:40:57 +0000

I had the same problem but I was using echo $output; Changing it to return $output; fixed the placement. Thank you!
-Michelle

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By: Arnau

Arnau — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:43:23 +0000

Want to add a shortcode in my tagline. Any advice on how to do this will be very appreciated!

By: Andrew Jacobs

Andrew Jacobs — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 02:55:23 +0000

Found this highly helpful. Thanks, man!

By: RRG

RRG — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:20:12 +0000

shortcode does not work in widgets as listed above. I’ve added the code to functions.php and nothing. Maybe it just won’t work for nextgen’s tag system to call the [ tagcloud ] witch is worthless anyway.

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By: English Mike

English Mike — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:36:08 +0000

Hi Jasmine, for the output to appear in the correct place you have to return the output from the function. “the_ID()” has an echo statement inside it, so your shortcode content is output (as you saw) but in the wrong place.

You need to do this:

function shortcode_id() {
   $output = get_the_ID();
   return $output;
}

That should do it!

By: Jasmine

Jasmine — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:56:45 +0000

Hi,
I am using the below shortcode, however it does not output where I place the shortcode, it is placing the story right at the beginning of the post content. Is there something wrong with my code?

function shortcode_id() {
the_ID();
}
add_shortcode(‘id’, ’shortcode_id’);

Thanks
Jasmine

By: English Mike

English Mike — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:52:56 +0000

Hi, I don’t think you can use “is_page()” with a page number. In any case, you don’t really need it, since you’re hardcoding the value in the function — if it’s a page, it’s always a page

Anyway, if you take that test out, the shortcode should work fine.