Twitter's Customizable Widget

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  prehistoryranch · Member · Mar 21, 2011 at 10:30 pm

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  I am trying to add Twitter’s profile widget found here: http://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets/widget_profile

  However when I copy and paste the code into a text widget in my sidebar it comes up as jibberish. What am I doing wrong?

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  raincoaster · Member · Mar 21, 2011 at 11:26 pm

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  It can’t be used here, for security reasons; it has insecure code. We have a prefab Twitter widget that you can use.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 21, 2011 at 11:28 pm

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  Here’s the link to the Twitter widget info > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/twitter-widget/

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  debbieadele · Member · Mar 30, 2011 at 5:04 pm

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  timethief – the wordpress twitter widget is ugly, I would really much rather use the Twitter one with lovely colours and scroll bar and stuff :)

  raincoaster where can one get said prefab Twitter widget?

  or does anyone know how to fix the http://twitter.com/about/resources/widgets/widget_profile code so it can be used?

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  timethief · Member · Mar 30, 2011 at 5:14 pm

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  raincoaster is referring to the widget I point to. It’s the only one that we can use on wordpress.com blogs.

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  debbieadele · Member · Mar 30, 2011 at 5:40 pm

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  aww…… :( how long til we can get a pretty one?

  thanks for the reply

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  timethief · Member · Mar 30, 2011 at 5:47 pm

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  There are no plans at all that we Volunteers are aware of to allow any Javascript to run on our wordpress.com blogs due to security reasons. See here please > http://en.support.wordpress.com/tag/code/

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  debbieadele · Member · Mar 30, 2011 at 7:02 pm

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  on twitter they say it is html rather than javascript, not that I know the difference. thanks for your help though, saved me keeping retrying it constantly.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 30, 2011 at 7:28 pm

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  I do know the difference and I repeat to you. The only Twitter widget I know of that will work on wordpress.com blog is the one provided by wordpress.com. http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/twitter-widget/ No matter how many times you post the code you are trying to use into a wordpress.com free hosted blog the software here will strip the code out to preserve security on this multiuser blogging platform.