Premise and Product Description in the Sidebar (just like StudioPress)

[hich]

Need to use a custom code to add and process the product_description short code so it appears in the "sidebar" of the
page. I need to add the code using the echo do_shortcode() method so it appears in my sidebar area on the checkout page. Can anybody help me with the code I shall insert?

[nutsandbolts]

Apologies if I'm missing the point or if this isn't helpful, but you can use shortcodes in widgets by adding the following to functions.php:

// Enable shortcodes in widgets
add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

And you can allow PHP in widgets with this function:

// Enable PHP in widgets
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;
}

Hopefully that helps.

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Andrea Whitmer, Owner/Developer, Nuts and Bolts Media
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[hich]

Hi!

Many thanks for your fast reply. In fact, I will have to add the code in the template not the widget area. The reason for that is simple; There's only one checkout page and several products. We can modify the widget area in the sidebar for one product only, but each time a user click on the checkout link he must get the full product description. Just like StudioPress when you checkout to buy a theme, you have in the sidebar right "your order summary" for each of the themes. It's a different sidebar per product.

Let me know 🙂 and many thanks!

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