How to add Shortcodes in Widgets, and wordpress text widgets

The Shortcode API Introduced in WordPress 2.5. Shortcode is a simple set of functions for creating macro codes for use in post/page content. You may seen that shortcodes can be used in wordpress posts, pages. but by deafult shortcodes cannot worked in widgets you need to enable it. To add shortcodes in Widgets simply add the following code on your theme's functions.php

add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

This will ensure that the text content of widgets is parsed for shortcodes and those shortcodes are ran.