Followbutton not showing in widget

  • Hi,

    I’m using the plugin to display twitter follow buttons on my page, using this shortcode:
    [twitter_follow screen_name=”TWITTERNAME”]

    After some of the last updates, the shortcode stopped working in sidebar widgets (which worked before). It’s still working if I use the shortcode in pages and posts.

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  • Plugin Author Niall Kennedy

    (@niallkennedy)

    Are you using the Follow button widget or are you trying to use a shortcode in a text / HTML widget area?

    Thread Starter flo2

    (@flo2)

    I’m trying to use the shortcode in a text widget.

    Plugin Author Niall Kennedy

    (@niallkennedy)

    Why not use the Follow button widget instead? Is there functionality missing from that widget you gain by using a shortcode?

    Thread Starter flo2

    (@flo2)

    Using shortcodes was a more elegant solution, because I have multiple twitter accounts that I want to display. And it worked before.

    But now I’m using several follow button widgets and custom css to edit the margin, which works as well.

    Plugin Author Niall Kennedy

    (@niallkennedy)

    WordPress may have changed how it handles text/widget areas and shortcodes. The follow button shortcode in the plugin registers the shortcode at the plugins_loaded action since the plugin’s launch. WordPress had some shortcode parsing changes in 4.2.3 if you noticed a change in behavior after a WordPress version upgrade.

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