Text-Widget does not save my custom html microdata

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  benefizmatineevillach · Member · Jun 4, 2014 at 7:26 am

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  Hello there and thanks in advance for any help!

  When I try to use microdata-html for google-rich-snippets in my sidebar-text-widget, it seems wordpress.com is always deleting my microdata-markup (like itemprops). What can I do?

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jun 4, 2014 at 8:11 am

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  WordPress.com only allows certain HTML tags on the site. This applies to text widgets as well. You can see here which tags are allowed and which not: http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/

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  benefizmatineevillach · Member · Jun 4, 2014 at 8:17 am

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  thanks.
  Why is wordpress doing this? I see that microformats are OK – whats wrong with microdata?

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jun 4, 2014 at 8:53 am

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  It’s because all our blogs run off the same software. If one person uploads corrupted or incorrect code it can potentially take down the entire site. If you have a self-hosted wordpress.org install you can use whatever code you want as you can download the software and then cutomise it the way you want it.

  If you think a certain type of code should be added you can suggest it. The doc I linked to contains a link for you to contact support if you want to do that.