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

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

    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 help of additional code from…

    Sarah Gooding

  • WordPress 4.8.1 Adds a Dedicated Custom HTML Widget

    WordPress 4.8.1 Adds a Dedicated Custom HTML Widget

    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 Custom HTML widget. “For advanced…

    Jeff Chandler