Embed shortcode is not working in text widgets

[Surbma]

The [embed] shortcode is only working in a post content, but not working in a text widget.

We presuppose, that shortcodes are enabled in text widgets with the right filter.

[swissspidy]

Shortcodes aren't enabled for text widgets by design.

AFAIK [embed] isn't a "normal" shortcode and running the text through do_shortcode is not enough. Using the WP_Embed::run_shortcode method should work though. Note that the output isn't cached when not using in a post.

[Surbma]

Replying to swissspidy:

Using the WP_Embed::run_shortcode method should work though.

Thank you for your reply! Can you please give a working example code?

Is it something, that never will change to make it easy to use in a text widget?

[swissspidy]

Thank you for your reply! Can you please give a working example code?

Something like this should work (untested!):

<?php
function wp34361_widget_text_embeds($text) {
  global $wp_embed;
  return $wp_embed->run_shortcode( $text );
}
add_filter( 'widget_text', 'wp34361_widget_text_embeds' );

If it doesn't, that's because of the caching in post meta. See https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10457#comment:33

See also WP_Embed::__construct for the various hooks that are used for embeds.

Is it something, that never will change to make it easy to use in a text widget?

Shortcodes in widgets are being discussed in #10457. There are some edge cases that need to be considered, like the post meta cache for embeds.

Closing this ticket as a duplicate.

[Surbma]

Thank you for all the informations! I got some point of this issue from the other ticket.

FYI the example code is not working.