When you open the widgets admin page in wordpress there are a long list of standard widgets down the left hand side, One of them is called ‘Text’. You drag this into the selected widget area over on the right hand side and simply enter the shortcode into it’s entry box as directed.
Sorry – but it really doesn’t get much easier than this!
Ahhhhhh, now it makes sense, I have widgets for various other things but no one told be I had to use the text widget. At least now I know where to add the shortcode 🙂 However, I’ve done it and the widget appears on the page with the right Title but with the the code showing underneath. Perhaps our version doesn’t work with Simple Press widgets. Thanks for your time guys 🙂
I want to refer you back to post 10 of this topic… not so much becuase it mentions using a text widget, but because it also has a link to an article that explains how to update an older theme that might not be allowing shortcodes in text widgets….
Woo hoo…. all sorted. I updated as instructed (learning all the time) and once I realised the short code goes in the text widget everything works fine 🙂 Thanks for the help guys, I’m glad I didn’t give up now 🙂