Title: Doesn't do widget text
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Doesn't do widget text

 *  Resolved [fakeologist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fakeologist/)
 * (@fakeologist)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-do-widget-text/)
 * Doesn’t work for urls in widget text boxes.
 * An older plugin, autolink urls, does, by Scott R.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/sem-autolink-uri/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/sem-autolink-uri/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Mike Koepke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike_koepke/)
 * (@mike_koepke)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-do-widget-text/#post-4064183)
 * I’ve bookmarked to investigate. Thanks for letting me know.
 *  Plugin Author [Mike Koepke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike_koepke/)
 * (@mike_koepke)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-do-widget-text/#post-4064189)
 * I’ve extended the plugin to now apply to text widgets. It makes sense as a suggestion.
 * Thanks.
 *  Thread Starter [fakeologist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fakeologist/)
 * (@fakeologist)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-do-widget-text/#post-4064190)
 * Great update – except: can you autolinkify email and urls that don’t have the
   http:// in front? I’d like to use your link exclusively….the above Scott R. link
   works, but is missing some of your code. So I use both but would like to switch
   to yours only.
 *  Plugin Author [Mike Koepke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike_koepke/)
 * (@mike_koepke)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-do-widget-text/#post-4064199)
 * Let me look into this. I can see supporting text that starts with www but it 
   would be difficult to detect any site that is a url with no preceeding www.
 *  Plugin Author [Mike Koepke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike_koepke/)
 * (@mike_koepke)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-do-widget-text/#post-4064201)
 * Can you give me a few example links that don’t work? Of the 6 examples below 
   only the first is not converted to a link.
 * semiologic.com
 * [http://semiologic.com](http://semiologic.com)
 * [http://www.semiologic.com](http://www.semiologic.com)
 * [http://www.semiologic.com](http://www.semiologic.com)
 * [me@example.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-do-widget-text/me@example.com?output_format=md)
 * mailto:me@example.com

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 * Last reply from: [Mike Koepke](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mike_koepke/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/doesnt-do-widget-text/#post-4064201)
 * Status: resolved