Text widget not live

  • Unknown's avatar

    It seems that copying and pasting html into a text widget doesn’t give consistent results. I have put several on my blog, only to have them be inactive or display the html and not the active button. Others link fine. I do not understand the difference or how to rectify the problem. Please help.

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  • Unknown's avatar

    According to this:

    http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/

    The text widget only allow certain set of HTML. In details, here are the tags that are allowed:

    Add Code to Your Site

  • Unknown's avatar

    Although I am sure that the above was meant to be helpful, it was lost on me as I am not very techno-saavy. I know nothing about html code except that they are used for link backs to other sites and blogs. The html for the button that I would like to install is as follows…

    <center><a href=”http://kateyestudio.com/liberate-

    Can you please tell me what about it is unsafe?
    Thank you for your patience.

  • Unknown's avatar

    What you pasted above is just the beginning of the code. Please paste the entire code again, between backticks (see the note on allowed markup).

  • Unknown's avatar

    Thank you for the helpful pointer. I went back to the source and was able to get the entire line of code and the text widget now works. Your time was much appreciated! Have a great week!

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