short code not working in wordpress text editor

Question

I wanted to add shortcode from the text editor of wordpress post.I have added following short code in the post of wordpress:

<img alt="" src="[template_url]/images/ic_sol_1a.png" />

Here [template_url] is the shortcode i wanted to use it was not working. when i see it in the post page it render the text not the short code response. Somewhere i saw a solutions like adding following line to functions.php of theme:

add_filter( 'widget_text', 'shortcode_unautop');

add_filter( 'widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

But still after adding these lines i am unable to make shortcode work. What could be the possible reason?

my shortcode function is like this:

function my_template_url() {
  return get_bloginfo('template_url'); 
}
add_shortcode("template_url", "my_template_url");

Where have you placed your shortcode function? Is this inside your theme's functions.php file? You mention this is inside the text editor of a WordPress post so the filters you're showing don't apply. Which file are you outputting this in? Can you include your template markup for this particular section? — Nathan Dawson
@NathanDawson I have added that shortcode function inside functions.php of theme and the shortcode [template_url] i have used inside the post text editor while creating a post. — Yaser Nadeem
@NathanDawson Thanks for your hint we got the problem i will add that in the answer. — Yaser Nadeem

doublesharp doublesharp · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-19T16:23:25

You will need to use the get_bloginfo() to return the value as in your example and make sure to use the_content() to print the value to the page. If you use one of the API methods such as get_the_content() then the do_shortcode filter is not run. If you want to apply it use the following:

function my_template_url() {
    // This will echo the 'template_url'
    return get_bloginfo('template_url'); 
}
add_shortcode("template_url", "my_template_url");

$shortcoded = apply_filters( 'the_content', get_the_content() );

You do not need the add_filter() lines.

short code not working in wordpress text editor

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