YouTube Subscribe Button on WP Pages?

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  leelaxtv · Member · Dec 28, 2015 at 11:42 pm

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  Hi,

  I wanted to include a YouTube subscribe button on one of my pages. I went to the YT button maker and got the embed code, but nothing happened when I plopped it into the HTML editor of the page.

  Is something like this only possible in a Text Box widget? Is there any way to do this on a regular WP page?

  Thanks.

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

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  timethief · Member · Dec 28, 2015 at 11:44 pm

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  If you are trying to embed a youtube channel code that will not work.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 28, 2015 at 11:47 pm

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  leelaxtv · Member · Dec 28, 2015 at 11:53 pm

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  No. I just wanted to have a button on my wordpress.com site that allowed someone to subscribe to my YouTube channel. Is that possible at least in a text box widgets on the front page?

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  timethief · Member · Dec 28, 2015 at 11:59 pm

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  Yes, you can use a text widget:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/#adding-an-image
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/links/text-widget-links/

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  learningfromdogs · Member · Dec 29, 2015 at 12:25 am

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  I came to this post because my query is more-or-less in the same category.

  In my case I want to automatically insert an invitation to subscribe to my newsletter at the bottom of each post. In a sense, like a text widget but one that is inserted into each blog post.

  Am I making sense? ;-)

  Happy New Year to the team!

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  timethief · Member · Dec 29, 2015 at 12:28 am

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  @learningfromdogs
  This is not the same thing at all.

  If you mean a newsletter published here http://learningfromdogs.com/ then see blog subscription shortcode https://en.support.wordpress.com/blog-subscription-shortcode/

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  learningfromdogs · Member · Dec 29, 2015 at 12:40 am

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  Thanks Timethief. Appreciate the rapid response. Let me have a play with that shortcode and see if that is the answer.

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  leelaxtv · Member · Dec 29, 2015 at 4:31 pm

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  Does the widget text box allow for HTML code? I am trying to embed a YouTube subscribe button, but it doesn’t appear to work.

  I thought simple HTML code was permissible for the text box widget, no?

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  timethief · Member · Dec 29, 2015 at 5:28 pm

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  We do have code restrictions. Perhaps you are trying to post an iframes code, a JavaScripty code, or another code that the software is stripping out. https://en.support.wordpress.com/code/ I need to see the code here between [code] tags.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 29, 2015 at 5:30 pm

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  Oops! JavaScripty was meant to be JavaScript.

  Also note that advertising code will be stripped out too.