vtaylor100

Thanks for identifying index.php as the location of the spam junk. I had the same problem and couldn’t find where the spam was located. I highly recommend anyone that finds junk spam at the end of a code validation check to check their index.php

Thanks for the correction. My error. I did read the section on text widgets in the documentation, but in my hurry, I did not read far enough. WP score 1; vtaylor100 score 0.

Otto42
It would be great to have the documentation make this clear. It would have saved me many hours.

To say that the first line is the “Title” is not exactly correct, because the first line shows up as content on the blog page.

Well, I didn’t exactly resolve this, but I found a workaround. If I put html code on the second line of the text widget editing form, it is displayed as an active link! So, if I skip the first line and just use the second line, it comes out correctly. Weird.

You can see the result a roylat.com

Thanks for your efforts to help cipote and Ipstenu.

This looks like the code I pasted in above your last post. Am I missing a difference.

One thing I noted is that the text in the widget appears as html code after I finish entering it. I can return to edit it and see the html code again. As soon as I Save Changes for all widget editing (i.e., make the changes live), the html code disappears from the widget. It no longer shows up as an option for editing.

Well, I can’t seem to get the html not to convert into a link. Suggestions?

Maybe “backticks” Here it is in backticks:

<a href="https://jacksonforum.org/blog/">Jackson Forum Blog</a>

When I paste in text in the widget, it appears as text just fine.

Whoops,

on this post, my text was converted to a link, which is of course what I want to happen in my text widget. Here is the actual text before conversion, with href mis-spelled to stop the conversion.

‘Jackson Forum Blog‘

See if this gets it posted right.

Thanks for the help.

Here is what I currently pasted into the text widget at roylat.com:
Jackson Forum Blog

I then saved the changes. The text appears on the site, but again it is not active.
When I try to edit the text widget, only the text, not the HTML code is available for editing.

I did try this with the default them, but to no avail.

More thoughts?

Is this so elementary that everyone thinks I just a clod and not worth bothering with? I’ve looked at all the documentation. I have programmed for many years. I’m just not familiar with WordPress, and when I do what seems obviously the right thing, it doesn’t work.

In the case in point, I pasted the text from feedburner for establishing a link to an email subscription page. I also tried a general hyperlink code piece. In both cases, no active link. My site is roylat.com. Look at the bottom of the sidebar for “Jackson Forum.” This was entered as html hyperlink code in a text widget. But, only the text appears, not the underlying link.