title: Wordpress Shortcodes not working right with NEXTGEN gallery
body: <p>I am building a wordpress template from scratch for my <a href="http://www.eurozagreb.org" rel="nofollow">web</a>. Everything was going so smoothly until I decided to add gallery functionality to it. Naturaly my pick was NEXTGEN gallery plugin which I already had used before in other web projects. </p>
  
  <p>Problem appeared when I wanted to add slideshow to my static frontpage named index.php nothing happened. I used do_shortcode function and echoed result, but all I got was unfiltered text like <code>[ slideshow id=1 ]</code>.</p>
  
  <p>It was driving me crazy so I tried next:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>adding shortcode to content of another page (which again failed like example above)</li>
  <li>adding <code>echo apply_filters('the_content', $post-&gt;post_content)</code> to template file and <code>add_filter('the_content', 'do_shortcode', 11)</code> to <code>functions.php</code> file (which resulted in image list showing, which got me thinking that shortcodes were in fact working)</li>
  <li>registering dynamic sidebar and adding NEXTGEN default widgets to it using old fashioned widgets functionality (slideshow widget still not working only loading.gif appears but never loads anything)</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>My question is do I need to initialize short-code functionality somewhere for custom build themes? Since I really needed some hooks to get it up and working.
  Does anyone know for some incompatibility issues with new WP and NEXTGEN?</p>
  
  <p>WP version 3.4.2
  NEXTGEN version 1.9.7 </p>
  
  <p>I've tried disabling and re-enabling plugins and that didn't do any good...</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance,</p>