Title: Text widgets adding characters
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Text widgets adding characters

 *  [mygoodcents](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mygoodcents/)
 * (@mygoodcents)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-widgets-adding-characters/)
 * Almost every time I go into the widgets section and change anything .. I look
   at my site and see that there is suddenly random characters on the page (like
   an & symbol) or the code inside the text widgets have changed (like the quotes
   will turn into < symbol) and something doesn’t work anymore like the email to
   subscribe .
 * It’s gotten to the point I’m scared to go in there as it will take me 20 minutes
   to fix everything…. Am I doing something wrong or should I be adding something
   so this doesn’t happen?
 * Thanks in advance and on a side note, being very new to all this… these forums
   have been an absolute savior to me… I appreciate everyone that puts time in to
   help…

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 * Last reply from: [mygoodcents](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mygoodcents/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-widgets-adding-characters/)
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