Travis Pflanz

Allow Shortcode in Text Widgets is a very simple plugin that does one thing… Allows users to add shortcode to text widgets.
There are no settings. Simply install and activate the Allow Shortcode in Text Widgets plugin, then use whatever shortcode you like within a text widget

Allow Shortcode in Text Widgets

So simple, but so usefull

It does what it says and it works great, thank you.

Works great

Allow shortcode to be used in text widgets

Martin Tod

<ul>
<li>Replaces a <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode" rel="nofollow ugc">shortcode</a> such as <code>[rotatingtweets screen_name='your_twitter']</code>, or a <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Widgets" rel="nofollow ugc">widget</a>, with a rotating display of your most recent tweets</li>
<li>Supports the <a href="https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/upcoming-changes-to-tweets" rel="nofollow ugc">new longer tweet format</a></li>
<li>Supports <a href="https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/tweetingmadeeasier.html" rel="nofollow ugc">280 characters</a></li>
<li>Space efficient – instead of showing all your tweets at once, shows one at a time and then smoothly replaces it with the next one. After showing all your tweets, loops back to the beginning again.</li>
<li>Reliable – keeps showing your latest Tweets even if the Twitter website is down.</li>
<li>Customizable – you decide whose tweets to show, how many to show, whether to include retweets and replies, and whether to show a follow button. You can also decide how quickly the tweets rotate and what type of animation to use.</li>
<li>Responsive – resizes as your page resizes</li>
<li>GDPR-friendly – with default settings, collects no user data and shares no user data (including IP addresses) with anyone else. Supports ‘Do Not Track’ (DNT).</li>
<li>Gives you the option to show a fully customizable Twitter ‘follow’ button. For note, because of the way Twitter’s code for the Twitter button works, the button will display as a regular text link to site visitors who have set ‘Do Not Track’.</li>
<li>Replaces <a href="http://t.co" rel="nofollow ugc">t.co</a> links with the original link</li>
<li>Caches the most recent data from Twitter to avoid problems with rate limiting</li>
<li>Uses <a href="http://jquery.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">jQuery</a>, <a href="http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle/" rel="nofollow ugc">jQuery.Cycle</a> and <a href="http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle2/" rel="nofollow ugc">jQuery.Cycle2</a> to produce a nice smooth result.</li>
<li>Compatible with <a href="/plugins/w3-total-cache/" rel="nofollow ugc">W3 Total Cache</a>.</li>
<li>Multi-lingual – now set up to be multi-lingual. The Twitter ‘follow’ button is automatically translated to match your site’s language setting <a href="https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/developer-utilities/supported-languages/api-reference/get-help-languages" rel="nofollow ugc">if Twitter has made the appropriate language available</a>. Also uses <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/I18n_for_WordPress_Developers" rel="nofollow ugc">WordPress’s multi-lingual capability</a> to enable translation of all the other text used by the plug-in via <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/rotatingtweets" rel="nofollow ugc">language packs</a>.</li>
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If you’d like to see what the plug-in looks like in action, you can <a href="http://www.martintod.org.uk/2012/05/29/new-twitter-plugin-to-show-tweets-in-rotation/" rel="nofollow ugc">see the plug-in working here</a>.
<h3>Credits</h3>
Most of this is my own work, but special thanks are owed to:
<ul>
<li>The <a href="http://jquery.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">jQuery</a> team</li>
<li><a href="http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle/" rel="nofollow ugc">Mike Alsup</a> for <a href="http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle/" rel="nofollow ugc">jQuery.Cycle</a> and <a href="http://jquery.malsup.com/cycle2/" rel="nofollow ugc">jQuery.Cycle2</a></li>
<li><a href="http://sydlawrence.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Syd Lawrence</a> for introducing me to jQuery and jQuery.Cycle</li>
<li><a href="http://abrah.am" rel="nofollow ugc">Abraham Williams</a> for <a href="https://github.com/abraham/twitteroauth" rel="nofollow ugc">TwitterOAuth</a></li>
<li><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/lgladdy/" rel="nofollow ugc">Liam Gaddy</a> at <a href="http://www.stormconsultancy.co.uk/" rel="nofollow ugc">Storm Consultancy</a> for <a href="http://www.stormconsultancy.co.uk/blog/development/tools-plugins/oauth-twitter-feed-for-developers-library-and-wordpress-plugin/" rel="nofollow ugc">his work</a> on <a href="/plugins/oauth-twitter-feed-for-developers/" rel="nofollow ugc">oAuth Twitter Feed for Developers</a> (although I ended up using it for inspiration rather than plugging it in directly).</li>
<li>All the people who have given advice and suggested improvements</li>
</ul>
Thank you to the people who did the original translation work for the following packs:
<ul>
<li>Wilmerson Felipe for his work on Brazilian Portuguese</li>
<li>Nils Kroneberg for his work on German</li>
<li>Alberto Lario for his work on Spanish</li>
<li><a href="https://profiles.wordpress.org/deshack/" rel="nofollow ugc">Mattia Migliorini</a> at <a href="http://deshack.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">deshack</a> for his work on Italian</li>
<li>Natasja Weijer for her work on Dutch</li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/profile/alexandretrudel" rel="ugc">Alexandre Trudel</a> for his help on French</li>
<li>Borisa Djuraskovic at <a href="http://www.webhostinghub.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Web Hosting Hub</a> for his help on Serbian</li>
</ul>

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