How can I get HMTL on my wordpress.com site?

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  eywalabs · Member · Jan 27, 2014 at 6:06 pm

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  Hello. I’m trying to install Google Analytics and Mailchimp into my blog but am having trouble using the ‘Text’ widget, which is supposed to support HTML. Every time I publish the code comes out on the page looking jumbled and not performing the desired function. Is this because I’m using wordpress.com and not .org? If this would allow plugins which could make this work then I’m thinking about switching over. Is this possible?

  Thanks. Galileo Russell.

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  eurello · Staff · Jan 28, 2014 at 7:46 pm

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  Hi Galileo,

  Plain HTML will work in a Text widget, but not HTML that includes any code that’s not permitted here:
  Code

  Google Analytics can’t be used here, but we have our own internal stats built in:
  Stats

  For Mailchimp, you could use a Contact Form for users to sign up for your newsletter, and then send it directly from Mailchimp:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/subscriptions-and-newsletters/#newsletters
  Contact Form

  We also have built in blog subscriptions:
  My Followers

  If these solutions won’t work and you need to move to WordPress.org, you can do that. To move your blog to a self-hosted site, you’ll first need to obtain web hosting. We have some recommendations here:
  http://get.wp.com/hosting/

  We have a guide for moving your site here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/moving-a-blog/#moving-to-wordpress-org

  You can move your domain to your new site in this way:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/domains/move-domain/

  Please let me know if you have any further questions!