Kickstarter video in primary side bar.

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  amyjalapeno · Member · Oct 8, 2014 at 3:22 pm

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  I want to embed my kickstarter video in my primary sidebar. How do you do this? I copied the embeded widget code kickstarter gave me and pasted into a text box, but only the link shows and it changes the embeded code when I save it.

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Oct 9, 2014 at 6:36 pm

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  Hi!

  The issue here is the code their providing to do the embed, which I’ve pasted below:

  <iframe width="480" height="360" src="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/amyjalapeno/inner-freedom-is-hot/widget/video.html" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"> </iframe>

  The iframe HTML code is blocked at WordPress.com for security reasons:

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  If you try to enter the code, it will automatically be stripped down to the link as you’ve seen.

  The good news is we’ve setup embed support for Kickstart, which is explained here:

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/videos/kickstarter/

  You should just need to copy and paste the URL. Can you give that a try?

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  amyjalapeno · Member · Oct 13, 2014 at 6:21 pm

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  Jeremy,

  I appreciate your prompt response. Unfortunately, it does not answer my question.

  The difficulty I am having is in the text widget of WordPress. I want my Kickstarter video to show up in the primary sidebar of every page of my website. When I paste in the code (and change the video parameters) it gets changed when I save. When I simply paste in the URL like you suggest, it doesn’t even hyperlink.

  Any ideas?

  Thanks again for your prompt response and for your help.

  -Amy

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  jeremeylduvall · Member · Oct 13, 2014 at 9:24 pm

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  Howdy Amy!

  The difficulty I am having is in the text widget of WordPress. I want my Kickstarter video to show up in the primary sidebar of every page of my website. When I paste in the code (and change the video parameters) it gets changed when I save.

  The issue here is that Kickstarter is giving you a code that is blocked at WordPress.com. So, when you enter the iframe code and try to save it, WordPress.com is kicking out the code since iframe codes are not allowed for security purposes:

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  Unfortunately, that code won’t work.

  To embed the video into your sidebar, you should be able to enter the following code in a Text Widget:

  [kickstarter url=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/amyjalapeno/inner-freedom-is-hot/]

  Can you give that a try?