Show shortcode without executing it

I am trying to display code in my WordPress page and it isn’t working. Everything I read says that you should be able to just use pre tag with code tag and it would be good but when I try to display a shortcode, it renders the shortcode rather than displaying the code.

Between functions.php (theme), widgets, and plugins, which is loaded first?

Customer asks if a specific carousel plugin he uses can be widgetized. That means I should create a widget inside functions.php which calls the plugin’s function. That means that the plugin’s code has to be loaded first so that the function be available to WordPress when the functions.php file is loaded, right? Would that work?

Custom bulk_action

I would like to add a custom bulk action to a custom post type. I came across the filter bulk_actions-screenid, which according to its documentation, would do exactly as I wish. However, after about two hours of debugging I found the following comment // This filter can currently only be used to remove actions. on line 278 of class-wp-list-table.php – great!