Title: Button in a Widget
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Button in a Widget

 *  Resolved [chasman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chasman/)
 * (@chasman)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/button-in-a-widget/)
 * I want to put an Amazon Link Button into a Widget I can put in a Sidebar.
 * I used a plugin called Widget Builder and simply created a Widget with the short
   code in it.
 * It didn’t work… I could see the Amazon Link button OK but a copy of the page 
   was splashed over the top of it squished into the side bar. I suspect the builder
   plugin doesn’t work.
 * Do you know how to write these by hand? Maybe I just need to wrap the short code
   in some tags but I don’t know enough about it… any tips?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-link/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/amazon-link/)

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 *  Plugin Author [paulstuttard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulstuttard/)
 * (@paulstuttard)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/button-in-a-widget/#post-6690669)
 * Hi,
 * Have you tried just putting a shortcode into a standard text widget?
 * Paul
 *  Thread Starter [chasman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chasman/)
 * (@chasman)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/button-in-a-widget/#post-6690807)
 * Doh! Yes that works perfectly… don’t use Widgets much, prefer full width pages.
 * Thanks Paul.
 *  [Technically Blonde](https://wordpress.org/support/users/technically-blonde/)
 * (@technically-blonde)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/button-in-a-widget/#post-6690926)
 * I’m being incredibly dense here but where do I find the short code to put into
   a standard text widget?

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 * Last reply from: [Technically Blonde](https://wordpress.org/support/users/technically-blonde/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/button-in-a-widget/#post-6690926)
 * Status: resolved