Micah Wood

The Shortcode Scrubber plugin allows to you to confidently manage plugins and themes that use shortcodes.
<ul>
<li>Have you ever gone to disable a WordPress plugin not realizing that it had shortcodes you were using?</li>
<li>Have you ever wondered what shortcodes are available for use on your site?</li>
<li>Have you ever wondered what plugin or theme provided a specific shortcode so you know where to look for documentation?</li>
<li>Have you ever discovered broken shortcodes displayed on your site?</li>
<li>Have you ever wanted to prevent content editors from using a specific shortcode?</li>
<li>Have you ever wanted to clean up old shortcode content?</li>
<li>Have you ever run into shortcodes that won’t process other shortcodes?</li>
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If you answered yes to any of the questions above, then the Shortcode Scrubber can help!
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<h4>Features</h4>
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<li>When active, all broken shortcodes displayed on the site are automatically hidden.</li>
<li>When active, all shortcodes are auto-magically nestable.</li>
<li>Ability to view all registered shortcodes and whether it is provided by WordPress core, the active theme or a plugin.</li>
<li>Ability to easily find all uses of a specific shortcode across all posts, pages, custom post types and widgets.</li>
<li>Ability to disable individual shortcodes temporarily or permanently remove all uses of a shortcode.</li>
<li>Ability for developers to create extensions that can manage shortcode migrations (e.g. Visual Composer to bootstrap compatible markup or shortcode to Gutenberg block conversions).</li>
<li>Clean, well written code that won’t bog down your site.</li>
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Shortcode Scrubber

A powerful tool for cleaning up shortcodes on your site and confidently managing plugins and themes that use shortcodes.

anmari

Insert a widget or multiple widgets or a entire widget area (sidebar) into a page using a shortcode.
Set up your widget first in a normal sidebar. Check it works. 
THEN Drag your chosen widgets to the sidebar called “widgets for shortcode”.
Add the do_widget shortcode to the page where you would like the widget to appear (or the do_widget_area)
To use in the block editor, add a shortcode block, then type in (including the square brackets [do_widget widgetname] or copy the do_widget tip from the widget in the ‘Widgets for Shortcodes’ sidebar.
Please see detailed info on shortcodes and parameters under the installation tab (depending what the plugin directory developers have most recently done, this may be under the FAQ, or at the very least under the readme.)
Using a widget more than once?
Reference a specific widget instance from the do_widget shortcode, or the chosen sidebar from the do_widget_area shortcode. Eg: [do_widget id=widget-n]
For example: You could use the query posts widget in the page to create a archive within a page, or the rss widget to list feed content from other sites. For more details see <a href="http://webdesign.anmari.com/category/plugins/shortcode-any-widget/" rel="nofollow ugc">anmari.com</a>
The plugins default action is that it will magically find the settings for your themes sidebar and use the sidebar html to control the widgets output. In most cases this means the widget will be styled as per the rest of your theme. If that does not look good, parameters exist to try override this behaviour.
EG: in twenty-fourteen theme widget text ends up being white on white! widget_classes=none fixes that. Eg: [do_widget widget_classes=none yourwidget]
Changed your theme and worried about losing the sidebar settings ?
No problem, the plugin will save and restore the widgets_for_shortcode settings. On display it will then pick up the new themes sidebar settings.
Note:
PLEASE get your widgets working in a sidebar BEFORE activating this plugin, and please read https://wordpress.org/plugins/amr-shortcode-any-widget/installation/ and https://wordpress.org/plugins/amr-shortcode-any-widget/faq/ and/or see the settings page. To see a list of your widgets in their sidebars, add ?do_widget_debug to the page with the do_widget shortcode.

amr shortcode any widget

This tool works flawlessly. I was wondering about this kind of solution for a long. Thanks for creating this. I'll prepare a tutorial on it.

Great Life Saving Tool

Insert a widget or multiple widgets or a entire widget area (sidebar) into a page using a shortcode.

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