Text Widget – Can I use HTML (UTube)

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  wesleysoccer · Member · Dec 23, 2008 at 5:01 am

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  Can I use html in text widget? Trying to get a sidebar video in there?

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  philipxz · Member · Dec 23, 2008 at 6:08 am

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  Yes, you can use HTML in the text widget. I guess you can try putting in the YouTube shortcode in there to put a YouTube video.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Dec 23, 2008 at 6:10 am

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  Do realize though that if it has javascript, flash, iframes or forms in the code it will be stripped out here due to security concerns. The reason I mention that is that many people don’t know the difference simply because they aren’t a code monkey.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Dec 23, 2008 at 11:07 am

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  @philipxz: No, the youtube shortcode only works in a post or a page. (Same thing applies to the audio player shortcode etc. As far as I know, the only shortcode that works in a text widget is polls.)

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  wildascience · Member · Jan 3, 2009 at 2:22 am

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  hmmmm… I don’t know. But I think you can adding it. Sorry my english so bad! linke me= wildascience.wordpress.com

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  rudeboymat · Member · Jan 3, 2009 at 4:32 am

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  Im trying to get different widgets in there. I just read that i could put the last.fm widget in there. I tried it and it just doesn’t work. But, probably that thesacredpath is right. Im just not a code monkey i guess.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 3, 2009 at 4:35 am

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  Typically you can check to see what the code is by simply looking through it for words like, script, or javascript, or flash, or <form> or <iframe>. Also, if you see anything that says PHP, that is another type of script and it will be stripped out also.

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  blessbabe · Member · Feb 10, 2009 at 1:57 pm

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  Why does WordPress not allow YouTube videos and only allows VodPod? You are allowed to use YouTube vids in your posts, so why not in the sidebar too? I really, really dislike Vodpod!

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  jdodge349 · Member · Feb 16, 2009 at 8:29 pm

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  I have been trying to put the facebook link icon on my wordpress blog. I paste in the html into the text widget and all the html shows up in my blog. What am I doing wrong? There’s got to be a way to do this…in fact, I’m curious why wordpress does not have a facebook widget.

  http://www.facebook.com/share_partners.php