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[Glynnes Pruett]

The site isn’t online yet! Just needed a place to put my instagram plug in.. i tried putting the short code in a text widget on the home page, but it won’t display. Where should I put it if i want to have the feed at the bottom of my home page?

[Bill Robbins]

Good Morning Glynnes,

Excellent question. You can add a shortcode to a text widget, but we need to make a small edit first. Here’s what to do:

1. Go to the Appearance section in your WordPress dashboard and choose Edit.
2. From the list of files on your right, choose functions.php
3. Scroll down to the very bottom of the file and add this:

   
   
   add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');
   
   

   (make sure to copy that code directly from the support site and not the notification email)

4. Save your changes.

I believe that will set things so that you can use a shortcode inside a text widget. If you run into trouble let me know.

Have a great day,
Bill

[Glynnes Pruett]

thank you! worked perfectly!

[Bill Robbins]

Fantastic. Let me know if you need anything else 🙂

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