Title: Customize Widget to allow coding
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Customize Widget to allow coding

 *  Resolved [Jenniferep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenniferep/)
 * (@jenniferep)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-widget-to-allow-coding/)
 * I noticed Cubepoints widget you can customize to make text bold and add links
   etc. When I add same code in Worpoints widget it shows as the actual code instead
   of changing text and adding links.
 * For example if I add widget text for “%points%” I can use this code….<b>%points%
   </b> in cubepoints and it will display on site as **100** instead of <b>100</
   b>
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpoints/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpoints/)

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 *  Plugin Author [J.D. Grimes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdgrimes/)
 * (@jdgrimes)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-widget-to-allow-coding/#post-4928984)
 * Hi [@jenniferep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenniferep/),
 * I will consider adding an option to enable HTML in the widget in the next version
   of WordPoints. Thank you for the feedback.
 *  Thread Starter [Jenniferep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenniferep/)
 * (@jenniferep)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-widget-to-allow-coding/#post-4929001)
 * One more thing, I noticed in top user widget, photos of users shrink. I know 
   Google Chrome does something with images, but they show up fine using shortcode
   in pages, is there a solution for this?
 * Also I wanted to say Thanks, everyone this plugin is great, cleaner and updated
   version of the abandoned cubepoints plugin. This one has so much potential and
   can already do almost everything cubepoint does but in much better way.
 *  Plugin Author [J.D. Grimes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdgrimes/)
 * (@jdgrimes)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-widget-to-allow-coding/#post-4929064)
 * I an unable to reproduce the bug with the shrinking images in the widget. What
   version of Chrome are you using? And what theme is active on your site? It is
   also possible that other plugins you have installed could be causing it.
 * Also, a note about your original request. I think you can already do what you
   want using the Text widget that WordPress provides, and using the WordPoints 
   shortcodes, if you install this plugin that lets you use shortcodes in the Text
   widgets: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-in-sidebar-widgets/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/shortcodes-in-sidebar-widgets/)
 *  Plugin Author [J.D. Grimes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdgrimes/)
 * (@jdgrimes)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-widget-to-allow-coding/#post-4929172)
 * [@jenniferep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jenniferep/) — I’ve just released
   version 1.5.0, which makes this possible. You need to add the following code 
   in a custom plugin or your child theme:
 *     ```
       remove_filter( 'wordpoints_points_widget_text', 'esc_html', 20 );
       ```
   

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