Title: Shortcode needs HTML?
Last modified: September 23, 2020
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# Shortcode needs HTML?
* [tylerthehanson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tylerthehanson/)
* (@tylerthehanson)
* [5 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-needs-html/)
* Hello!
* **Backstory:**
I broke something when I upgraded my WordPress/plugins/themes
without backing up anything (I know, I know), but in my frantic attempts to fix
Problem 1 of what was broken, I also created a Problem 2 by disabling/activating
several plugins and broke my sidebar widget.
* I use a great plugin to populate my twitter feeds, known as Custom Twitter Feeds.
When I disabled/reactivated Gutenberg, the feeds wouldn’t come back and NONE
of my shortcodes, for that matter, were working, not just my Custom Twitter Feeds.
* I downgraded to 8.6.1 and was able to successfully insert Shortcodes again via
the customize dashbaord and using Custom HTML on my Theme and it worked! Out
of curiosity, I upgraded AGAIN to 9.0.0 and discovered that it converted the
widget into a legacy Custom HTML code block with [custom_twitter_feeds] in it.
Voila. Boom. It still works, again.
* **My question:**
Is the Shortcode block in Widgets’ Sidebar supposed to populate
correctly like it does in other pages/posts, or does someone suspect a plugin/
theme conflict?
* **My Config:**
Wordpress 5.5.1 Sydney Theme 1.68 Gutenberg 9.0.0
- This topic was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by [tylerthehanson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tylerthehanson/).
Reason: clarification
* The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fshortcode-needs-html%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
to see the link]_
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* Plugin Author [Isabel Brison](https://wordpress.org/support/users/isabel_brison/)
* (@isabel_brison)
* [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-needs-html/#post-13806128)
* Hi there!
* The Shortcode block _should_ populate correctly in the Widgets screen, but I
can reproduce the issue so it seems to be a bug in Gutenberg. Thanks for letting
us know! I’ll write up a report for it.
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## Tags
* [custom](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom/)
* [html](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/html/)
* [legacy](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/legacy/)
* [shortcode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shortcode/)
* [sidebar](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sidebar/)
* [widgets](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/widgets/)
* 1 reply
* 2 participants
* Last reply from: [Isabel Brison](https://wordpress.org/support/users/isabel_brison/)
* Last activity: [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-needs-html/#post-13806128)
* Status: not resolved