wordpress custom html widget with PHP

Question

I'm trying to add a php code inside a custom HTML widget but the site in showing this like plain text.

Any idea why is this happening?

PHP CODE:

<?php
$param = uniqid();
echo "<script language='javascript'>";
echo "alert('message successfully sent ' . $param)";
echo "</script>";
?>

HTML:

HOW I SEE THE PAGE:

Wordpress' Custom HTML widget doesn't support PHP. You would need to install a plugin for that functionality, ie PHP Code Widget — APAD1
– APAD1, Commented Sep 27, 2017 at 18:21
since it's a simple JS code, why not simply put it without PHP tag — Temani Afif
– Temani Afif, Commented Sep 27, 2017 at 18:23

Aness · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-10 00:59:22Z

2

Same problem happenned to me today!!, resolved it by adding the following code to the Wordpress theme function.php file.

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;
}

To enable shortcodes in the Text and Custom HTML widget just add this code to your theme functions.php :

add_filter('widget_text','do_shortcode',10);

answered Mar 10, 2020 at 0:59

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