What's wrong with the widget functionality on WordPress.com? Widgets won't show

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  gregtrainor · Member · Sep 15, 2014 at 8:11 pm

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  Widgets aren’t appearing correctly on the website.

  I tried to add a widget from the crowdfunding platform Crowdrise, but that didn’t show up. I made it sort of work by using an image widget of our logo that takes you to Crowdrise if you click it, but that looks terrible.

  I can’t even get the built-in social widgets to show up. The Facebook Like widget and the Twitter Feed widget aren’t showing up at all in my sidebar.

  I cleared my cache. Widgets are enabled. That’s not the problem.

  Please let me know what I’m missing here.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  honeysilvas · Member · Sep 15, 2014 at 8:37 pm

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  Hi,

  For Crowdrise, it depends on what code you are using on the widget. These are the only allowed ones:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/#html-tags

  I do see your Facebook and Twitter widget correctly so I don’t think you have a problem there.

  Hope that helps!

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  gregtrainor · Member · Sep 15, 2014 at 9:16 pm

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  You can see the Facebook and Twitter widgets in the right sidebar? Do you know why I can’t?

  I also can’t see any of the social sharing buttons on the posts themselves.

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  gregtrainor · Member · Sep 15, 2014 at 9:32 pm

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  This is the widget code

  Fundraising Websites – Crowdrise<script type=”text/javascript” src=”https://www.crowdrise.com/widgets/donate/fundraiser/216542/”></script>

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  honeysilvas · Member · Sep 15, 2014 at 10:02 pm

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  Hi,

  This is the widget code
  Fundraising Websites - Crowdrise<script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.crowdrise.com/widgets/donate/fundraiser/216542/"></script>

  JavaScript is not allowed on WordPress.com blogs:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/code/#javascript

  Have you tried a different browser?
  You can download an updated version of your browser here: http://browsehappy.com/

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  honeysilvas · Member · Sep 15, 2014 at 10:02 pm

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  On the posts itself, you have to click the title of the post to see the sharing buttons.
  If you look at this post,
  http://philadelphiacommunitycorps.org/2014/09/11/the-philadelphia-community-corps-is-back/
  the sharing button is at the bottom of the post.

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  gregtrainor · Member · Sep 15, 2014 at 10:13 pm

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  I can’t see the sharing buttons. I even signed out of WordPress and checked, but they weren’t there.

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  gregtrainor · Member · Sep 15, 2014 at 10:16 pm

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  I figured it out. AdBlocker was keeping a social media widgets from showing. Well at least that is figured out.

  But is there no solution for non-wordpress widgets?

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  honeysilvas · Member · Sep 15, 2014 at 11:04 pm

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  Hi,

  Unfortunately, JavaScript is not supported so maybe you can ask Crowdrise if they have an embed code that is WordPress.com friendly.

  Again, here are the allowed codes here in WordPress.com:

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  raincoaster · Member · Sep 15, 2014 at 11:34 pm

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  You can also look through http://wpbtips.wordpress.com to see if panos has come up with a workaround. He has for a lot of things.