Text Widget – How to add?

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  iggz · Member · Feb 19, 2009 at 4:18 am

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  I want to add a poll to my sidebar and I know that this must be done through the sidebar through a text widget.

  The problem is – How do I add a text widget? I can’t find the option anywhere! (im looking under appearance>widgets) Im using the Black-letterhead theme if this matters.

  thanks

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Feb 19, 2009 at 6:19 am

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  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.

  Yes it’s under Appearance>Widgets.

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  feartheseeds · Member · Feb 19, 2009 at 7:13 am

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  In Appearance > Widgets you’ll find the Text widget among the other widgets, just click “Add”, then click on “Edit” and add the html code for the poll or just some general text, then save the page.

  Polls

  Good luck.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Feb 19, 2009 at 7:35 am

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  Not the html code, the shortcode.

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  reification · Member · Feb 23, 2009 at 3:30 am

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  I wanted to use the text widget to list several dates and events occurring on those dates. However, it doesn’t seem like the carriage return functions inside this widget it is simply made to a a blog paragraph. Either there’s another widget I should use or I’m not using this one properly.

  Instead of:

  Feb 25 Lily Allen
  Feb 26 Andrew Bird

  It displays:

  Feb 25 Lily Allen Feb 26 Andrew Bird

  http://zerovu.wordpress.com/

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  feartheseeds · Member · Feb 23, 2009 at 6:43 am

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  You can use html codes in the text widget to fix the formatting…

  <‘p align=”left”><‘span style=”font-family:arial;color:#000000;font-size:small;”>Take out the ‘ marks and add your text here<‘/span><‘/p>

  You don’t need the whole thing, just add <‘br> at the end of the line and you should be fine.

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  valibarsangam · Member · Feb 24, 2009 at 3:20 pm

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  I was trying to add a TEXT WIDGET with the counter (Histas) & I have the following code:

  <!– Histats.com START –>
  <script type=”text/javascript” language=”javascript”>
  var s_sid = 617566;var st_dominio = 4;
  var cimg = 400;var cwi =120;var che =90;
  </script>
  <script type=”text/javascript” language=”javascript” src=”http://s10.histats.com/js9.js”></script>
  <noscript>
  <img src=”http://s4.histats.com/stats/0.gif?617566&1″ alt=”web hit counter” border=”0″>
  </noscript>
  <!– Histats.com END –>

  But it displays this code only in my blog https://valibarsangam.wordpress.com

  I am non-coder..Please let me know what should be done to display the counter in my blog?

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  rosclarke · Member · Feb 24, 2009 at 3:24 pm

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  You can’t add that code to a WP.com blog because it contains javascript. It will automatically be stripped out, sorry.