Transferring HTML from a widget no longer allowed to new widget

  • Hey,

    I recently noticed that most of the pages on my website (such as the above) were no longer displaying properly. Upon checking things out, I realized that the widget within which I’d written the HTML code was now missing. According to my host, they have banned this particular widget–Black Studio TinyMCE–because it “was embedding the HTML editor into a widget, which is considered a big security risk.” I was instructed to instead use WordPress’ own HTML widget.

    Unfortunately, I cannot easily find the HMTL for each of these pages to copy and paste over. The only way I see it is if I go to the revisions page. However, because this is shown in two columns, I cannot easily copy the HTML over into a document to simply past into the WordPress HTML widget.

    Any suggestions on how to handle this? I’d prefer to not switch hosts so if there’s an easy way to swap HTML widgets and add back in the content that is missing, I’d greatly appreciate it.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Your story doesn’t quite make sense to me.
    Is it truly a widget? Widgets store their content in the options table. That would not be visible in the editor where revisions are shown.

    I was thinking that if it is a widget, you could copy the code from that plugin where it defines the widget, and put that into a copy of the WP HTML widget. Basically, duplicate the HTML widget with the naming of the plugin’s widget. Activate the new one and it should all be fine.
    But if it’s not really a widget (the HTML is part of the page content), you could export your database to another format like XML or CSV and look at it with a plain editor. Or load it into a sandbox (like https://wpsandbox.net/ ), where you can install the plugin, so you can get at it directly.

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