I want to use the [archives type=yearly] short code on a side bar widget so that people can click on links and see posts for the year. But this is the result I'm getting:

This is what I'm doing in the Widgets Editor:

And I added add_filter( 'widget_text', 'do_shortcode' ); to wp-content/themes/twentysixteen/functions.php.

I also get a similar problem when pasting the [archives] into a page or post. The website just renders it at [archives].

If I enter a shortcode like [gallery], I see a gallery.

So the problem is with the [archives] short code.

What am I doing wrong?

I want to use the [archives type=yearly] short code on a side bar widget so that people can click on links and see posts for the year. But this is the result I'm getting:

This is what I'm doing in the Widgets Editor:

And I added add_filter( 'widget_text', 'do_shortcode' ); to wp-content/themes/twentysixteen/functions.php.

I also get a similar problem when pasting the [archives] into a page or post. The website just renders it at [archives].

If I enter a shortcode like [gallery], I see a gallery.

So the problem is with the [archives] short code.

What am I doing wrong?

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1 Answer 1

I don't know or understand why, but I pasted this into wp-content/themes/twentysixteen/functions.php and it worked:

function wpse61674_archives_shortcode_cb( $atts ) {
    return '<h2 class="widget-title">Archives</h2><ul>'.wp_get_archives(array('format'=>'html','echo'=>false,'type'=>'yearly')).'</ul>';
}
add_shortcode( 'archives', 'wpse61674_archives_shortcode_cb' );

I found this code somewhere on the internet, but it wasn't part of the wordpress documentation on archives shortcode.