Short Codes Home Page

I need to be able to use “wow slider” on the home page. This slider uses short codes but when I place this short code on a widget instead of the slider I see the shortcode. I searched around a bit and found I have to add to functions.php this code for :
add_filter(‘widget_text’, ‘do_shortcode’);

For shortcodes to work. So I did. Now shortcodes work on widgets but still do not work on home page.

Iam trying to use the
Display Settings >> Home Page >> Attach widget bar
or
Display Settings >> Home Page >> Home Page Text

but with neither of them do I see the slider using the shortcode.
Anyone got any ideas of how I can handle this?

agustin.