http://themeshaper.com/forums/ Help In Shaping WordPress Themes en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:44:35 +0000 http://themeshaper.com/forums/topic/widget_text-do_shortcode-how-to-move-widget-action-to-functionsphp#post-17014 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:47:52 +0000 acts7 17014@http://themeshaper.com/forums/ <p>This is related to Viper Video QuickTag but its a general question of conversion related to WordPress and Thematic.<br /> This is the code that is called in the plugin.<br /> [code]<br /> add_filter( 'widget_text', 'do_shortcode', 11 ); // Videos in the text widget<br /> add_action( 'widget_text', array(&#38;$this, 'SWFObjectCalls'), 50 );<br /> [/code]<br /> The SWFObjectCalls function is what writes out the swfobject.embedswf code.<br /> I’m having issue in that I don’t get the swfobject.embedSWF script unless I add an empty text widget.<br /> I am almost certain this is due to the “widget_text” filter used to do the shortcode.</p> <p>How can I activate the do_shortcode in the sidebar without using a widget?<br /> And instead activate it from my functions.php file?</p> <p>[code]<br /> // ... before this is my query to get post with category "video" ...<br /> // GET CUSTOM FIELD VALUE<br /> $videoshortcode = get_post_custom_values($key = 'VideoShortcode');<br /> // GET FIRST in array in case more than one exist<br /> $videoshort = $videoshortcode[0];<br /> // CHECK THAT SHORTCODE EXISTS<br /> if(isset($videoshort) &#38;&#38; strcmp($videoshort,'')!= 0) {</p> <p> // DO THE SHORTCODE<br /> echo do_shortcode($videoshort);<br /> }<br /> [/code] </p>