Adding a CrowdRise widget

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  stephterrien · Member · May 3, 2015 at 10:48 pm

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  Hi,

  We’re trying to embed a widget from Crowdrise, a online donation platform, onto a WordPress.com blog (ssquaredliving.wordpress.com). Crowdrise has provided us with a snippet of html needed to make the widget work. This snippet includes script tags that link to some custom javascript that Crowdrise provides.

  The snippet:
  Fundraising Websites – Crowdrise<script type=”text/javascript” src=”https://www.crowdrise.com/widgets/donate/fundraiser/287538/”></script>

  We have tried to just copy and paste this into the content of the sidebar and the content of a page, however the script tags are stripped out when we save the content. I suspect this is because this isn’t a very good way to load javascript and could introduce some security issues. Instead, the script should be enqueued in the theme’s functions or in a specific page template on the back end of the site. However, there doesn’t seem to be a way to edit theme files through the administrative web interface. Is there some way to enable the ability to edit files through the web interface? Or possibly through an ftp / server connection? Or is this something that support staff could do for us if backend access is not an option?

  Thanks much!

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  galois · Member · May 3, 2015 at 10:56 pm

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  You can’t use <script> tags on WordPress.com for security reasons:

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  galois · Member · May 3, 2015 at 10:57 pm

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  However, there doesn’t seem to be a way to edit theme files through the administrative web interface. Is there some way to enable the ability to edit files through the web interface?

  Or possibly through an ftp / server connection?

  No & No.

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  timethief · Member · May 3, 2015 at 11:01 pm

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  There is no FTP access and there is no upgrade you can purchase here that changes that reality.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/ftp-access/

  WordPress.COM and WordPress.ORG are completely separate and have different logins, features, run different versions of some themes with the same names, and have separate support documentation and separate support forums. Read the differences here http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/
  For hiring a web host see http://wordpress.org/hosting