Here’s a useful little function for enabling PHP in the standard WordPress text widget.
//enable php in text widget
add_filter('widget_text','execute_php',100);
function execute_php($html){
if(strpos($html,"<"."?php")!==false){
ob_start();
eval("?".">".$html);
$html=ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
}
return $html;
}
It’ll look for the ‘<?php’ opening tag and the ‘?>’ closing tag and treat everything in it as PHP, rather than HTML. This is a huge advantage when trying to add WordPress specific PHP to pages without resorting to modifying the templates. I originally came across it here.
Just add the code to your child theme’s functions.php. If you’re not using a child theme, why not? Get one here in seconds for free.
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For me it is not working inside the text-module of Divi. The shortcodes are not working as well in Divi modules. Any other solutions?
Good post SJ. However, I would recommend not to use php code in a widget or text editor. The best and safest way is to convert your function in a shortcode and then use that shortcode using WordPress shortcode API. It’s a standard one. However, nice post.
That’s always an option too 🙂
I’ve found that PHP snippets are not compatible with DIVI ShortCodes. If I need code-based logic to determine whether to show or hide DIVI modules or to format columns using “[one_half][/one_half]” shortcodes to fit in with other parts of the page, you can’t do that from PHP snippets.