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Widget Embed not working with Wordpress?

A topic by Stardust Crow created Dec 08, 2017 Views: 3,147 Replies: 2
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So I'm trying to get a link to my game to work on my wordpress portfolio and it works fine when I'm first editing the page, but the moment I hit publish the html gets deleted and the widget stops working. Help?

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If your site is hosted on wordpress.com, it's possible they don't allow iframes in web pages.

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Found this post while I was looking for help yesterday, thought I'd come back in case anyone else comes across it.

I had this problem too. I've got an up-to-date standard self-hosted WP and if my iframe src was 'itch.io' then the contents of the iframe would disappear, I'd just get a border/empty box kind of effect.

A colleague suggested I looked at plugins, and I used the popular 'advanced iframe' from one - and that works great! 
How To Embed WordPress iFrame, with & without plugins
I just pasted in the code from the itch.io widget generator, and dumped it straight into a post in my WP blog, and it works. I've not tried playing the game 'in the widget' - I'm happy having the user see the widget banner and click to go through to my page on itch.io itself.

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