WordPress Shortcode in excerpt, custom fields and plug-in are possible with a little assistance from our experts. 

At Bobcares, we offer solutions for every query, big and small, as a part of our WordPress Support Services.

Let’s take a look at how our WordPress Support Team helped our customers with adding WordPress Shortcode in excerpts.

How to add WordPress Shortcode in excerpt

Shortcodes in WordPress allow us to add a custom function to our content. In fact, Word Press has built-in shortcodes as well. These are easy to use within pages and posts and even work in the Text widget. However, these in-built shortcodes seem to have trouble functioning smoothly in an excerpt of custom fields. Today, our Support Team is going to demonstrate how to overcome this obstacle.

To begin with, WordPress does not execute shortcodes within excerpts. Fortunately, we can resolve this by adding the following code to our functions.php file.

phpadd_filter('get_the_excerpt', 'do_shortcode');

The code above is responsible for processing a shortcode when get_the_excerpt() or the_excerpt() function is used in the theme.

However, if we want this functionality on only a particular get_the_excerpt() in a theme, we have to wrap the code within the do_shortcode function as seen below:

phpecho do_shortcode(get_the_excerpt());

Here, the excerpt content will first go through the do_shortcode() function which in turn is responsible for processing any shortcode it finds.

We can also use the do_shortcode() function to use a shortcode as a value in one of our custom fields.

Our Support Engineers would like to point out that this would not work with the the_excerpt() function as it displays the content rather than returning it.

Let us know in the comments if you have any trouble enabling WordPress Shortcode in excerpts, plugins, or custom fields.

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Conclusion

In a nutshell, our skilled WordPress Support Engineers at Bobcares introduced us to how to add WordPress Shortcode in excerpts, custom fields, and plug-ins. We learned how to process a shortcode when we use get_the_excerpt() or the_excerpt() functions in the theme.