How to pull in a Wordpress widget

Matthias Breynaert

• May 02, 2020 15:17

Hello there,

I'm trying to call in a widget, in order to call a single pod item. Since there is no option to add widgets in the page builder, I followed this tutorial: https://seothemes.com/how-to-display-widget-areas-with-a-shortcode/.

This is my widget:

When I call the widget

 

The site breaks "There has been a critical error on your website."

 

Am I doing something wrong? Is there a workaround?

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  Matthias Breynaert

  • May 03, 2020 08:17

  Hello all, 

  In the meantime, I found this very nice plugin which works!

  amr shortcode any widget

  Hope this can help anyone else. ;-)

  Matthias

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  Natalia Chitoroaga

  • May 03, 2020 16:25

  Hello Matthias!

  Thanks for the message and for the update. 

  I assume it was a conflict with the widget ID. But, this error: "There has been a critical error on your website."  is a general WordPress error. It can be caused by the widget itself or by the plugin. I'm interested in what errors were displayed in the console when the page broke?

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  Matthias Breynaert

  • May 03, 2020 18:38

  Hello Natalia. 

  Not sure what caused it in the first place, since I was simply making use of the built-in Wordpress functionalities.

  I didn't look in the console when it broke.

  However, by using this excellent plugin, people don't need to modify their functions.php, which seems quite a good solution to me.

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  Natalia Chitoroaga

  • May 04, 2020 09:04

  Hi Matthias!

  Thanks for sharing this helpful tip! 

   

  Natalia

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