Text Widget Format

  • mpustka · Member ·

    http://austxrealestate.wordpress.com/

    I’m having a problem w/ formatting a text widget. I’m working the text formatting out on the post page and then copying and pasting it into text widget and in the process I’m losing the line returns and its adding italics.

    What am I doing wrong?

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

  • raincoaster · Member ·

    We need to see the actual code. Can you paste it here, between backticks, those little apostrophe-like marks that are usually on the same key as the ~? So backtick, all your code, backtick. That makes it display properly.

  • mpustka · Member ·

    /

    <span style=”color:#000080;”>

    phone: (512) 472-2100
    fax: (512) 472-2905
    cell: (512) 970-8359
    Web: <span style=”color:#000080;”>McAllister & Associates</span>
    <span style=”color:#000080;”>Address: 201 Barton Springs Road
    Austin, Texas 78704</span>    </span>/

  • mpustka · Member ·

    ‘

    <span style=”color:#000080;”>

    phone: (512) 472-2100
    fax: (512) 472-2905
    cell: (512) 970-8359
    Web: <span style=”color:#000080;”>McAllister & Associates</span>
    <span style=”color:#000080;”>Address: 201 Barton Springs Road
    Austin, Texas 78704</span>    </span>’

  • carocat · Member ·

    Can you post it between backticks? Typically it’s next to the number 1 on your keyboard: `

  • mpustka · Member · 
    <p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>phone: (512) 472-2100
fax: (512) 472-2905
cell: (512) 970-8359
Web: <a href="http://www.matexas.com"><span style="color:#000080;">McAllister &amp; Associates</span></a>
<span style="color:#000080;">Address: 201 Barton Springs Road
Austin, Texas 78704</span></strong></span>
  • raincoaster · Member ·

    Did you design that in Word or something? It’s pretty messy. Try this:

    <p style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#000080;"><strong>phone: (512) 472-2100</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">fax: (512) 472-2905</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">cell: (512) 970-8359</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Web: <a href="http://www.matexas.com">McAllister &amp; Associates</a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Address: 201 Barton Springs Road</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Austin, Texas 78704</p></strong></span>
  • mpustka · Member ·

    No I did it in the posting part of my wordpress blog and then copied and pasted it.

    I put it together using the visual mode on edit post so could that be what messed it up?

  • mpustka · Member ·

    How do I format it to not have empty lines between rows of information in other words single spaced?

  • raincoaster · Member ·

    Oh, I thought you WANTED the spaces there. Just remove all the P tags.

  • mpustka · Member ·

    Do I replace the P tags with another format tag? It’s no longer centered when I remove the P and the carriage return is not working again?

  • feartheseeds · Member ·

    The break tag works for me… it works basically as a soft return, which you can also do using a ‘shift+return’ at the end of a line of text.

    <br />

  • mpustka · Member ·

    thx I’ll give that a try.

  • triplejeng · Member ·

    Hi, may i know about the updates on using widgets from Reverbnation? Cause i still cant use the html text in the WordPress Text widget. Does WordPress.com not support Reverbnation widgets?

  • 1tess · Moderator Emeritus ·

    No. We can only use the widgets available under Appearance > Widgets on the dashboard.

  • triplejeng · Member ·

    Yes, that’s what i used. I went to Appearance > widgets and then dragged the Text widget and paste the html given by Reverbnation. once i’ve saved the widgets and previewed my blog, Only a small tiny banner of Reverbnation.com appeared, and not the full widget instead.

    A fried of mine uses WordPress as well, and is able to use the Reverbnation Tune Widget just fine by doing the same thing on Text Widget. But she is a Premium user.

    Is it because she’s a premium user and i’m not, so i dont get to use the Tune Widget?

  • thesacredpath · Member ·

    @triplejeng, my guess is that the code you are trying to paste contains flash, or javascript, or some other code that is not allowed here, but unless we can see it, we cannot know for sure. Paste the code here in the forums between backticks ( ` ), the key to the left of the #1 key with the ~ on it.

  • triplejeng · Member ·

    <img style="visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;" border=0 width=0 height=0 src="http://counters.gigya.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC/bT*xJmx*PTEyNDA5Mzg3NzE5NDEmcHQ9MTI*MDkzODc4MTk5OCZwPTI3MDgxJmQ9YmxvZ19wbGF5ZXJfZmlyc3RfZ2VuJmc9MSZ*PSZvPTM1ZDBhNTFmNTNjYzRhOTY4NzU1YzI3YzhmMmQ5MGVmJm9mPTA=.gif" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://cache.reverbnation.com/widgets/swf/28/blog_player.swf?emailPlaylist=artist_148988&backgroundcolor=EEEEEE&font_color=000000&posted_by=artist_148988&shuffle=&autoPlay=false" height="300" width="180"/><br /><a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/c./a4/28/148988/Artist/148988/Artist/link"><img alt="Rina%20S." border="0" height="12" src="http://cache.reverbnation.com/widgets/content/28/footer.png" width="180" /></a><br /><img style="visibility:hidden;width:0px;height:0px;" border=0 width=0 height=0 src="http://www.reverbnation.com/widgets/trk/28/artist_148988/artist_148988/t.gif"/><a href="http://www.quantcast.com/p-05---xoNhTXVc" target="_blank"><img src="http://pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-05---xoNhTXVc.gif" style="display: none" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt="Quantcast"/></a>

    sorry if the code takes too much space.
    here is the add from my friend’s Blog where she uses the same Reverbnation widget i want to use.
    http://www.waniardy.com
    Its basically a mini audio player on her side bar.

    Thanks so much for the help. I appreciate it very much.

  • thesacredpath · Member ·

    That code is flash, and flash is not allowed here due to security concerns.

    Code

    The reason your friend can use it is that your friend has a self-hosted wordpress blog on a third-party hosting service. We cannot do it here at the wordpress.COM free hosting service.

  • thesacredpath · Member ·

    By the way, your friend has two bad URL’s on their blog that results in errors when trying to load the site.

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