Shortcode doesn’t work in Text Widget nor Custom HTML

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  ripplezdesign · Member · Sep 19, 2019 at 2:27 am

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  Hi there,
  I have tried to call the recent posts from the Text widget first but it didn’t work.
  Then I have added the
  // Filter for Custom HTML widget
  add_filter(‘widget_text’, ‘do_shortcode’);
  to the functions.php and tried that way. It still doesn’t show up.
  Instead, it shows the shortcode itself [display-posts post_per_page='2'].

  Can I get some help, please?

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  staff-zinnia · Staff · Sep 20, 2019 at 3:23 pm

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  Howdy –

  I’d love to take a closer look. Which site are you working on?

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  ripplezdesign · Member · Sep 22, 2019 at 9:03 pm

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  The website is https://ripplezdesign.com/ but I was trying to resolve this localhost so far. Shall I upload the previously mentioned widgets live and give you my login for the cms?

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  kokkieh · Staff · Sep 23, 2019 at 4:45 am

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  Hi there,

  Your site is not hosted on WordPress.com, but using the open source WordPress.org software at another hosting provider. Your localhost installation also uses that version of the WordPress software.

  We cannot help with this in the WordPress.com forums.

  Please post in the self-hosted WordPress forums instead for help:

  https://wordpress.org/support/forums

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  kokkieh · Staff · Sep 23, 2019 at 4:48 am

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  The WordPress software does not include a display posts shortcode by default. If you’re using the Display Posts Shortcode plugin to add that, you can find support for that plugin at https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/display-posts-shortcode/

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  ripplezdesign · Member · Sep 23, 2019 at 8:56 am

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  Okay. Thank you even for this guidance. Much appreciated.