text widgets

WordPress 4.9 Will Support Shortcodes and Embedded Media in the Text Widget

Sarah Gooding October 26, 2017 7

WordPress 4.8 brought TinyMCE to the core Text widget, along with brand new Image, Video, and Audio media widgets. The upcoming 4.9 release builds on this progress and will introduce some long-awaited improvements to Text widget. Users will finally be able to use shortcodes in the Text widget without the (more…)

WordPress 4.8.1 Adds a Dedicated Custom HTML Widget

Jeff Chandler July 21, 2017 20

When WordPress 4.8 was released last month, it introduced TinyMCE functionality to the Text widget. Unfortunately, this caused issues for those who use Custom HTML as the Visual editor often strips out portions of the code. WordPress 4.8.1 Beta 1 is available for testing and addresses this problem by including a dedicated (more…)

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T Piwowar: Thanks for the reply Gary, however I don't think i »
Gary: Thanks for the feedback! The Classic Editor use »
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Gary Taylor: I had a quick look at Gutenberg and it will I'm su »
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Sue: I agree. This plugin is not clear about what it do »
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