Allow Blog Action day Widgets?

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  bandonrandon · Member · Sep 30, 2010 at 2:56 am

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  As WordPress.com blogs javascripts the Blog Action Day wigets are not allowed to be used in post. Blog action day is a great event held each year to get blogger to write about a unified topic. This year, water. I’m wonderinf if the Automattic/WordPress team would think about allowing their widgets to be used on WordPress.com sites. http://blogactionday.change.org/widgets

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 30, 2010 at 4:03 am

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  Why don’t you just make a static text widget that does the same thing? It’d be easy. Or ask them for an HTML-only version. It would take them about 10 minutes to design, test and post one.

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  bandonrandon · Member · Sep 30, 2010 at 6:34 am

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  True, but that’s not as flashy as the widgits they have :)

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 30, 2010 at 7:00 am

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  You can check out the gigya shortcode at http://wpbtips.wordpress.com and see if they can make the javascript work in a widget, but it’s a long shot.

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  kellysalasin · Member · Sep 30, 2010 at 4:36 pm

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  Follow up question: so does this mean that we cannot embed a widget from another site (i’m also interested in the Blog Action one, but also a New England one) on a WP site? Is that why I’ve never been able to make it work?

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  bandonrandon · Member · Sep 30, 2010 at 4:51 pm

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  @raincoaster, I’ll give it a go thanks for the tip.

  @kellysalasin, yes WordPress.com strips out javascript from post from the support site:
  “Users are not allowed to post JavaScript on WordPress.com blogs. JavaScript can be used for malicious purposes. As an example, JavaScript has taken down sites such as MySpace.com and LiveJournal offline in the past. The security of all the blogs is a top priority and until we can guarantee scripting languages will not be harmful they will not be permitted.

  JavaScript from trusted partners, such as YouTube and Google Video, is converted into a WordPress shortcode when a post is saved.”
  Source: http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/

  Not allowing javascript for security is a logical thing to do I personally think by blocking all scripts that’s going to the extreme. IMO a better solution would be to run a check for malicious code or filter javascript before allowing it to run.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Sep 30, 2010 at 5:17 pm

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  @kellysalasin: You can’t embed javascript widgets, but you can embed flash widgets. See here:
  http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/category/gigya/