Help to execute a shortcode outside postent content area

Question

To Begin, I'm using this plugin

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/my-youtube-playlist/ & this theme, www.press75.com/themes/on-demand/this-is-a-sample-video-post-4/

My intention is to have the youtube playlist displayed in the gray area on the theme, where there is currently only 1 video displayed. my intention was to use the Youtube Code embed field of the theme as the place where i could put the plugin shortcode and therefore have the plugin create the playlist needed for the post. However I've been unable to get the plugin to execute the shortcode once it is NOT placed in the content area of the post.

The theme creates a video container Div (the gray area for the video) once either a video link is posted or video embed code is entered into the relevant field of the theme.

I've tried the following

• Hardcoding the [myyoutubeplaylist LO3n67BQvh0, WGOohBytKTU, iwY5o2fsG7Y, PyKNxUThW4E, 1cX4t5-YpHQ, SJ183htYl-8, eWwoHPrrJYY, bja2ttzGOFM] into the single post php file to see if the plug would pick it up. No Luck. It simply output the shortcode to the screen

• Hardcoding <?php echo do_shortcode('[myyoutubeplaylist LO3n67BQvh0, WGOohBytKTU, iwY5o2fsG7Y, PyKNxUThW4E, 1cX4t5-YpHQ, SJ183htYl-8, eWwoHPrrJYY, bja2ttzGOFM]'); ?> to see if it would pick it up. No Luck. It simply outputs the shortcode to the screen.

• Having the template dump the shortcode parameters into the following:
  <?php echo do_shortcode( get_video($post->ID); ?>. No Luck. It simply outputs the shortcode to the screen

• Repeating all the above outside of the video container div created by the theme

I'm fresh out of idea's, so any and all help would be GREATLY appreciated

Answer 1

Put this in your functions.php file:

add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

Then use the shortcode in your sidebar as you would in the main content area.