text widget cannot be edited!
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i’m facing some problems with the text widget. i want to write text into the text widget, so i added the text widget into the list of widgets that are displayed on my blog. but when i clicked on the right hand side of the bar, with the [edit] to edit, the text widget just disappeared. no text box appeared for me to add in text.
is there any way to solve this?The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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After adding the text widget but before you click the “edit” link, click the “save changes” button below the list. Then click the edit button and it should work for you.
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I’m having this problem as well. I clicked save after adding the widget and before I added the html. Then, I added the html, and clicked “save”.
My blog shows the title, but nothing from the code. When I go back to edit, it’s disappeared.
I don’t *think* there’s a problem with the code, however, I could be wrong. It’s a generic code from Amazon that links to my astore.
Any ideas?
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If it disappears, it’s probably code not allowed, for instance javascript. You could paste the code here between backticks so we can see.
And please paste the exact URL of your blog when asking questions here – or link your nickname to your blog as explained in the Sticky 8 Things to Know. We usually need that to give a relevant answer.
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The code for the Astore widget will be stripped out. I don’t think there is an HTML only version, but if there is I have not seen it.
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I am also having this problem when trying to add a button to a text widget. I have read that wp doesn’t like the html code and that there are ways to add it using a post draft and then copying that in but it isn’t working.
~<img src=”http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/lyndsayjohnson/BannerButtoncopy.gif”/>~
Any help would be appreciated it, in the simplest terms possible :).
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That wasn’t the whole button code, let me try this
~<img src=”http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/lyndsayjohnson/BannerButtoncopy.gif”/>~ -
Nope, not working. Why? I am using the backticks. I’ll try it with a space
~ <img src=”http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/lyndsayjohnson/BannerButtoncopy.gif”/> ~
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Sorry,
<a href="http://bannersbylyndsay.blogspot.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/lyndsayjohnson/BannerButtoncopy.gif"/></a> -
The HTML, as you provided it, works fine in my test blog, but it does change the URL the image links to to the following:
http://hiderefer.com/?http://bannersbylyndsay.blogspot.comIt takes a minute for the “hiderefer.com” site to redirect.
I’m not sure what is up with the “hiderefer.com” thing, that is something new here at wordpress.com. I’ve never seen it before.
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The hiderefer.com thing came up in another thread recently. It seems to have been activated for private blogs, so that they don’t get any links back. Which does make sense.
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It still isn’t working in my blog. I am taking the button html code from here http://bannersbylyndsay.blogspot.com/, the button code being down a little ways from the left side. I then try to add it to the text widget and it doesn’t work. I tried to paste it into a draft post (I had seen you suggest that in another thread) and then take it to the text widget and it doesn’t work. I am going to be needing to add more buttons just like this in the future and am not familiar with tweaking html code. Am I really just missing an easy explanation?
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The html looks fine. Are you sure that you are saving the changes properly? You have to save changes when you add the text widget to the sidebar, then save them in the text widget when you put in the html code, and then save changes again before you leave the page.
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Interesting thing is that the code works when put into a post in one of my private test blogs, but not when put into a text widget. When put into a text widget it strips out the img src section of the code.
I think you are going to have to contact staff on this one and perhaps give them a link to this forum post as well. Either that or include the fact that it works when put into a post, but not when put into a text widget.
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Thank you for your help – you guys are patient and great. The link isn’t for a private blog, which makes this even more mysterious. I will contact staff, thank you.
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There needs to be a space between gif” and /> in the code. This code should work:
<a href="http://bannersbylyndsay.blogspot.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll208/lyndsayjohnson/BannerButtoncopy.gif" /></a>Check out the text widget links help page to learn how to create links like this without having to know html code.
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I’m having problems too…I can’t even get the box to add the html too…when I click edit, the little blue box with text on just disappears.
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