Title: text widget
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# text widget

 *  Resolved [s4s](https://wordpress.org/support/users/s4s/)
 * (@s4s)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-widget-17/)
 * Is it possible for expander to work in the Text sidebar widget? My page is not
   picking up the code in the widget.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/expander/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/expander/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Ciprian Popescu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/butterflymedia/)
 * (@butterflymedia)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-widget-17/#post-4019062)
 * It is not possible, as widgets are text only. There are some plugins which allow
   you to add shortcodes to widgets, so you may combine them.
 *  Plugin Author [Ciprian Popescu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/butterflymedia/)
 * (@butterflymedia)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-widget-17/#post-4019063)
 * Try this one:
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-in-sidebar-widgets/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-in-sidebar-widgets/)
 *  Thread Starter [s4s](https://wordpress.org/support/users/s4s/)
 * (@s4s)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-widget-17/#post-4019064)
 * Awesome! Tks so much for following up on this. I’ll give that a try.

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 * Last reply from: [s4s](https://wordpress.org/support/users/s4s/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-widget-17/#post-4019064)
 * Status: resolved