text widget not saving

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  tahlianewland · Member · Feb 21, 2012 at 1:55 am

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  My text widgets won’t save.

  They were fine until a couple of days ago. Then I tried to add more text widgets with HTML in them (for images linked to Amazon). I clicked the save button, the whirly thing went round and stopped as usual, but the heading for the text didn’t appear here <http://awesomeindies.wordpress.com/wp-admin/widgets.php&gt;

  The image didn’t appear on the front of the site either. I tried it with just plain text and the same thing happened.
  Blog url: http://awesomeindies.wordpress.com/

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  helper-ringostarr · Member · Feb 21, 2012 at 2:52 pm

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  I tried adding some test values to the empty text widget you have in the “Primary Widget Area” and didn’t encounter any problems.

  Can you try again, entering both a title and your content into the widget?
  Thanks.

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  tahlianewland · Member · Feb 21, 2012 at 11:13 pm

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  That’s interesting because that widget isn’t empty from my end. I tried again, but it still didn’t save either with the HTML or plain text. I even deleted the text widget I had there and dragged in another one. Still nothing.

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Feb 21, 2012 at 11:49 pm

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  It’s possible that the type of code may be stripped out for security reasons.

  Can you please paste the code here? Make sure to use the code button up top.

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  tahlianewland · Member · Feb 21, 2012 at 11:58 pm

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  This is the one I’m trying to put in the secondary widget area. But the text widget won’t even work when I write, ‘this is a test’ in the box.

  <img border=”0″ src=”http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B00686UIFW&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=lethalinheri-20&ServiceVersion=20070822″ ><img src=”http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=lethalinheri-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B00686UIFW” width=”1″ height=”1″ border=”0″ alt=”” style=”border:none !important; margin:0px !important;” />

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  tahlianewland · Member · Feb 22, 2012 at 12:09 am

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  I have lots of these in other text widgets and they are fine. When I try to alter the ones that are there, they don’t save the new version, just keep showing up what was there before

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Feb 22, 2012 at 12:14 am

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  Hm, that should work.

  Would you mind just deleting the Text widget and trying again?

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  tahlianewland · Member · Feb 22, 2012 at 12:54 am

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  Just did it and it’s still not working. Fun, isn’t it?

  I used this one
  <p style=”text-align: center;”><img class=”aligncenter” src=”http://ws.assoc-amazon.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&Format=_SL160_&ASIN=B0035FZMAU&MarketPlace=US&ID=AsinImage&WS=1&tag=lethalinheri-20&ServiceVersion=20070822″ alt=”” border=”0″ /><img class=”aligncenter” style=”border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;” src=”http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=lethalinheri-20&l=as2&o=1&a=B0035FZMAU” alt=”” width=”1″ height=”1″ border=”0″ /></p>
  <p style=”text-align: center;”>600 hours of Edward by Craig Lancaster – Contemporary Fiction</p>

  What happens if you try to do it?

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Feb 22, 2012 at 12:57 am

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  That seems to have worked properly for me. I saved it in your last Text Widget, the one that was left blank.

  Can you please tell us which browser (and version of) you were using?