Calling widget using shortcode query poblem

  • I am calling a widget using shortcode,
    everything is wordking except when I passs a widget option as a query then it only accepts title.

    Like
    [widget name="WP_Widget_Categories"]title=Category&dropdown=1&count=1&hierarchical=1[/widget]

    Now when this shortcode output then it shows my title query but no action for other three query. I tried this with all widget, same problem.

    Please check if my query format is mistaken.

    and here is my shortcode function

    add_shortcode('widget','widget');
function ra_widget($atts, $content) {
	// Configure defaults and extract the attributes into variables
	extract( shortcode_atts(
		array(
			'name'  => ''
		),
		$atts
	));

	ob_start();
	the_widget($name, $content, 'before_widget=<div class="post-widget">&after_widget=</div>&before_title=<h3>&after_title=</h3>');
	$output = ob_get_clean();

	return $output;
}

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    It appears shortcode content is run through htmlentities() so that the ‘&’ parameter separator gets converted to # 038; (without the space). Thus the string parser of the_widget() fails to parse any arguments after any ‘&’ characters since that character is no longer found.

    You can undo this with
    $content = html_entity_decode($content);
    in your shortcode callback before the call to the_widget(), after which all your parameters should be parsed correctly.

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