Enabling shortcodes in WordPress excerpts aren’t automatic, but here’s the override

Posted on 03/28/2015 by Aaron Belchamber

To enable shortcodes in WordPress excerpts you have to add this to your active theme’s (hopefully a child theme)

functions.php

1	functions.php

file:

PHP
add_filter( 
1
add_filter( 
PHP
'the_excerpt'
1
'the_excerpt'
PHP
, 
1
, 
PHP
'shortcode_unautop'
1
'shortcode_unautop'
PHP
);
1
);
PHP
add_filter( 
1
add_filter( 
PHP
'the_excerpt'
1
'the_excerpt'
PHP
, 
1
, 
PHP
'do_shortcode'
1
'do_shortcode'
PHP
);
1
);

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