Running Shortcodes in Text Widgets
Awesome tip from Sarah Gooding over at http://wpmu.org – one of my favorite places to visit!
Quite awhile ago I shared a tip on using shortcodes outside of the post editor. Here’s another equally handy snippet for enabling shortcode use within WordPress text widgets.
Add this to your functions.php file:
add_filter( 'widget_text', 'shortcode_unautop');
add_filter( 'widget_text', 'do_shortcode');
For the original – Using Shortcodes in Text Widgets