Twitter badges and javascript disappear!?

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  sustainorder · Member · Apr 21, 2009 at 12:13 am

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  I have no clue why this is that I cannot paste a simple javascript code into pages on my wordpress.com blog.
  Why is it forbidden?? Whenever I paste the twitter badge created via twitter badges, the script doesn’t work.
  I am not interested in the sidebar widget provided by wordpress, since my blog doesn’t have a sidebar, and I want a wide twitter badge.

  Does anyone know how to fix this problem or go around it or demand that wordpress allows pasting javascript and flash into posts?

  Thanks!

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  thesacredpath · Member · Apr 21, 2009 at 12:26 am

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  It’s a security issue. Many of the other services including Facebook have been brought down by bad javascript and flash inserted by users and wordpress.COM is very concerned with security.

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  And wordpress doesn’t do “demands”.

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  sustainorder · Member · Apr 21, 2009 at 12:30 am

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  So why then not allow pasting the simple HTML twitter badge code?? That’s harmless.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Apr 21, 2009 at 1:48 am

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  You can as long as it doesn’t contain javascript or flash, iframes or forms.

  http://support.wordpress.com/links/text-widget-links/

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  thesacredpath · Member · Apr 21, 2009 at 1:50 am

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  Paste the HTML code you are using here in the forum between backticks (the key to the left of the #1 with the ~ on it) so that we can take a look at it.

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  sustainorder · Member · Apr 21, 2009 at 2:40 am

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  It doesnt work, I tried. And I am not going to post the content here. Sorry and thanks.

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  t3ck · Member · Apr 21, 2009 at 2:47 am

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  You can use TwitStamp to create a twitter badge that
  will work here at WP.com http://twitstamp.com/

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  thesacredpath · Member · Apr 21, 2009 at 2:50 am

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  @sustainorder, suit yourself.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Apr 21, 2009 at 3:08 am

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  @sustainorder, using the twitstamp service, I just put a twitter badge thing on my test blog in less than two minutes using a text widget: http://allhatnocattle.wordpress.com/ .