WPSP Shortcode not working in Category Descriptions

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March 24, 2018 at 10:07 pm #3974

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I am using WP Show Posts Pro and created several entries which I want to display in post category descriptions. I insert the short code within WP admin under the category description. However, when I view the category description on the fronted of my website all I see is the WP Show Posts short code, like this [wp_show_posts id=”123456″]. Any idea how to get the short code to work with category descriptions?

March 24, 2018 at 11:07 pm #3976

Tom
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Hi there,

WordPress doesn’t execute shortcodes within the category descriptions by default.

You can try this to enable them: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/232411/how-get-a-shortcode-working-in-category-description

March 25, 2018 at 12:58 am #3977
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I put the code into the Snippets plugin and Lightweight Grids Columns and WP Show Posts shortcodes now work in category descriptions. Is this code stable? I mean the post from stackexchange is nearly two years old. Will I have to check on this each time a new WordPress update is released? Here is the code I inserted:
```
add_filter( 'term_description', 'shortcode_unautop' );
add_filter( 'term_description', 'do_shortcode' );
remove_filter( 'pre_term_description', 'wp_filter_kses' );
```
What does remove_filter… do? I commented out that line and it still seems to work out.
March 25, 2018 at 8:55 pm #3979

Tom
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The code itself is good.

The remove_filter line removes sanitization from the element, which means you can add scripts etc.. You can remove it safely.
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