Using WordPress shortcode in a title

Question

I have some shortcodes which work fine inside a WordPress post or page. Is there anything I can add to functions.php to enable a shortcode to work inside a WordPress post title?

Answer 1

You could try adding a filter to the title in the functions.php file such as:

add_filter( 'the_title', 'do_shortcode' );

Seems to work for me, however it may play havoc with your permalink's and I wouldn't recommend it.

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Answer 2

Add the following filter to functions.php as mentioned by David

add_filter( 'the_title', 'do_shortcode' );

However, this approach may not work if you are using the Yoast SEO plugin. For that, you need to add the following filter too:

add_filter( 'wpseo_title', 'do_shortcode' );