Title: Widget problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Widget problem

 *  [chaski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chaski/)
 * (@chaski)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-problem-8/)
 * We are using a widget-driven sidebar on a site which holds most of the text in
   the MySQL database.
 * The following line of text is not parsing correctly, which breaks the sidebar
   in IE, and gives an incorrect href in other browsers:
 *     ```
       <p class="i_rss"><strong ><a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>">Subscribe via Rss</a></strong></p>
       ```
   
 * —————————————————
    When looking at the source code, the PHP statement comes right
   through, rather than being processed on the server:
 * `<p class="i_rss"><strong ><a href='<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>'>Subscribe
   via Rss</a></strong></p>`
 * I have tried all kinds of jimmying with the code, replacing the double with single
   quotes, changing their position, etc. Nothing seems to work.

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 *  Thread Starter [chaski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chaski/)
 * (@chaski)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-problem-8/#post-1003265)
 * OK, some more oddness: If I do into PHPMyAdmin and change so much as the link
   from:
    `<a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>">Subscribe via RSS</a>`
 * to: `<a href="anyLink.php">Subscribe via RSS</a>`
 * Nothing on the sidebar works after that! This makes absolutely no sense to me.
   Should I get out of PHPMyAdmin and work directly through the WordPress admin 
   section?
 *  [jlg371](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jlg371/)
 * (@jlg371)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-problem-8/#post-1003751)
 * It seems that nobody in the wordpress world is knowledgeable enough to answer
   widget questions. After searching these forums for 2 days I have come to this
   conclusion. I guess all of these experts are not really experts at all.

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## Tags

 * [MySQL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mysql/)
 * [widget problems](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/widget-problems/)

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 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [jlg371](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jlg371/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-problem-8/#post-1003751)
 * Status: not resolved

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