Widgets no longer valid on the blog

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  astyledbybanke · Member · Nov 12, 2013 at 7:36 pm

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  I use a wordpress theme and I used to be able to use certain html codes for text in widgets e.g pinterest html code etc. I recently tried to change the code so i can have a different badge and my theme no longer allows me to have any html codes. Anyone able to help or tell what’s changed on wordpress?

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  timethief · Member · Nov 15, 2013 at 9:44 pm

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  Regardless of theme you choose to use you can capture an image of any social networking icon and upload it, link to it and display it in a text widget.

  For creating links in a text widget see:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/links/text-widget-links/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/
  NOTE http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/#adding-an-image

  You can upload image files by clicking the Add Media button right above the editing area of a page or a post. http://en.support.wordpress.com/add-media/

  You can also upload new files to your Media Library using Media → Add New. http://support.wordpress.com/media/media-add-new

  See also http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/04/26/images-the-three-link-options/

  For troubleshooting see http://en.support.wordpress.com/images/troubleshooting-images/

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  astyledbybanke · Member · Nov 17, 2013 at 2:14 pm

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  Thanks for your response. Previously I could have actual html texts in my widget area, this has stopped working on the blog. Like I mentioned, I used to have one for pinterest and I tried changing the html link which suddenly didn’t work. I tried having the old like again and it did not respond. This is my issue. I know i’m able to have images redirected to links but I would rather have it the was it used to be, in that way, I could have better functionality. Is anyone able to advice what has changed with wordpress?