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How to allow shortcodes in product excerpts on WooCommerce on WordPress

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On your WordPress website that uses WooCommerce for ecommerce you may want to allow shortcodes in the product excerpts on there. To do that without a plugin you can then add this code to your functions.php file. You may want to backup your WordPress website before you make updates the file on there.

Update to allow shortcodes in product excerpts on WooCommerce

/**
 * Update to allow shortcodes in product excerpts
 *
 * @author WPSnacks.com
 * @link https://www.wpsnacks.com
 */
if (!function_exists('woocommerce_template_single_excerpt')) {
   function woocommerce_template_single_excerpt( $post ) {
   	   global $post;
       if ($post->post_excerpt) echo '<div itemprop="description">' . do_shortcode(wpautop(wptexturize($post->post_excerpt))) . '</div>';
   }
}

Now if that works for you it would allow shortcodes in WooCommerce product excerpts on your WordPress website on there.

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How to add a shortcode to easily display the year in WordPress

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On your WordPress website you may want to make a shortcode that displays the year. You can then add this code to your functions.php file. You may want to backup your WordPress website before you make updates to that on there.

/**
 * Add year shortcode
 *
 * @author WPSnacks.com
 * @link https://www.wpsnacks.com
 */
function the_year() {
  $year = date('Y');
  return $year;
}
add_shortcode('year', 'the_year');

Then if that works for you when you want to use the shortcode you type in [year] and it would display it.

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How to make a shortcode to display an Adsense Ad

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Google Adsense Ads are a great way to earn money from your blog or site. Shortcodes are very useful to bloggers too and can be used to easily display an Adsense Ad that you created and setup in your Google Adsense Account. Just add this WordPress Code Snippet to the functions.php file in your current WordPress theme in order to make a custom Shortcode to display an Adsense Ad in WordPress.
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How to add a Paypal Donate button link to your site using a shortcode

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Just add this WordPress Code Snippet to the functions.php file in your current WordPress theme in order to create a shortcode that allows you to add a Paypal Donate button link on your site.
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How to show the comment count for a certain WordPress post using a shortcode

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Just add this WordPress Code Snippet to the functions.php file in your current WordPress theme in order to show the comment count for a certain WordPress post using a shortcode.
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How to allow shortcodes to work in WordPress text widgets

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If you are using shortcodes in your WordPress site, you may want to make it so they will work in text widgets. This can be especially useful if you are using a plugin that produces a shortcode to call the plugin and want to display it in a sidebar or other widget area. Just add this WordPress Code Snippet to the functions.php file in your current WordPress theme in order to make it so your shortcodes will work when placed in a text widget.
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How to make custom Shortcodes in WordPress

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Shortcodes are very useful to bloggers. You can use them to easily execute functions you have already created, which especially helpful for functions that are repeated often. Just add this WordPress Code Snippet to the functions.php file in your current WordPress theme in order to make custom Shortcodes in WordPress.
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How to create a shortcode to display the WordPress site url

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Shortcodes are a very useful tool when using WordPress. There are often things you may do a lot and using a shortcode helps make it so you can use one instead of retyping a lot of content. Also, if you are a web developer, you may be creating WordPress themes/sites on a development server that will later be transferred to a client’s server. When doing this, the url during development may not be the same as will be after it is transferred over to the client’s live site and server. This can cause extra work after making the transfer editing links and other text that may have displayed the url. You can use a shortcode to find the current site url and display it based on the url the WordPress theme is currently installed on, so no matter where the theme is used, it will display the correct url, which means you won’t have to change it if you move the theme to a new url. Just add this WordPress Code Snippet to the functions.php file in your current WordPress theme in order to create a shortcode to display the WordPress site’s current url.
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How to get custom field value using a shortcode

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Just add this WordPress Code Snippet below to the functions.php file in your current WordPress theme to allow you to get custom field values by simply using a shortcode.
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How to allow shortcodes to work in Contact Form 7 in WordPress

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Contact Form 7 is a great plugin to make custom contact forms on your WordPress site. If you are using shortcodes in your WordPress site, you may want to make it so they will work in the Contact Form 7 plugin’s contact forms. Just add this WordPress Code Snippet to the functions.php file in your current WordPress theme in order to make it so your shortcodes will work when placed in Contact Form 7 plugin’s contact form.
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