How can I force a line break in a widget title?

[pcgs51]

Is there a way to force a line break in a widget title because neither <br> or <br /> work. Once a widget is saved the <br> goes away.

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Thanks,
pcgs51

[Davinder Singh Kainth]

You can check the option to add paragraphs at bottom of widget. It should keep the layout intact. Other options are using:

<p>&nbsp;</p>

or

<br>&nbsp;</br>

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[Davinder Singh Kainth]

Also try this - http://bit.ly/1elZnnL

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[pcgs51]

Thanks Davinder, I've tried them all and can officially tell you that none of them work. Checking on the add paragraphs box does nothing. Also, I added that last script above to my functions.php and it broke my site entirely.

My question stands but let me rephrase this: Does anyone know of a way to do this? Have you done it before? I'm using a current version of Genesis and the Epik theme.

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Thanks,
pcgs51

[Summer]

GIven how sparse the search results are on this, my guess is not a lot of people have tried it.

Does using the CR/LF html codes work, instead of   ? For some reason, it won't display the HTML code for the characters here, but you can find them here: http://code.cside.com/3rdpage/us/newLine.html

That said, I haven't tried this myself, but I found this in the wordpress.org support forums:

add_filter ( 'widget_title' , 'my_widget_title' , 10 , 3 ) ; 
function my_widget_title ( $title ) { 
   $title = str_replace ( "[br]" , "<br/>" , $title ) ; 
   return $title ; 
}

from http://macadamcodeboys.com/2012/12/20/wordpress-des-retours-a-la-ligne-dans-les-widgets/

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[Summer]

That's weird... my post went away... Let's try again.

GIven how sparse the search results are on this, my guess is not a lot of people have tried it.

Does using the CR/LF html codes work, instead of   ? For some reason, it won't display the HTML code for those characters here, but you can find them here: http://code.cside.com/3rdpage/us/newLine.html

That said, I haven't tried this myself, but I found this in the wordpress.org support forums:

add_filter ( 'widget_title' , 'my_widget_title' , 10 , 3 ) ; 
function my_widget_title ( $title ) { 
   $title = str_replace ( "[br]" , "<br/>" , $title ) ; 
   return $title ; 
}

from http://macadamcodeboys.com/2012/12/20/wordpress-des-retours-a-la-ligne-dans-les-widgets/

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[Summer]

Hm. Not sure why the forum published my post the first time, and destroyed it on the edit. Maybe it doesn't like me posting multiple links?

Hopefully a moderator can fix my posts, so the potential for a solution can be found here.

If not, do a Google search for "wordpress line break in widget title" and look at the first wordpress.org forums link, and follow the link to a French site for a shortcode replacement solution

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[Summer]

One more time.

Instead of trying to use <br> in the title, have you tried using the HTML codes for CR or LF? Since the forum won't let me post the characters, you can find them here: http://code.cside.com/3rdpage/us/newLine.html

If that doesn't work, try the solution offered up here, replacing the HTML break with a shortcode: http://macadamcodeboys.com/2012/12/20/wordpress-des-retours-a-la-ligne-dans-les-widgets/

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[pcgs51]

Very strange that your post doesn't show up but I did see your message, Summer.

Your coding suggestion also causes the white screen of death.

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Thanks,
pcgs51

[Summer]

This is ridiculous. Not sure why the forum published my post the first time, and destroyed it on the edit. Maybe it doesn't like me posting multiple links? It's happened three times now.

Hopefully a moderator can fix my posts, so the potential for a solution can be found here.

If not, do a Google search for "wordpress line break in widget title" and look at the first wordpress.org forums link, and follow the link to a French site for a shortcode replacement solution

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[pcgs51]

Note to moderator: There is a person attempting to post to this thread but her replies keeps getting deleted. Her name is Summer.

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Thanks,
pcgs51

[Summer]

That's strange about the filter not working... I added it to a test site I have running News Pro, and it worked just fine.

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[Summer]

Let's see if me just putting the code here works:

add_filter('widget_title','my_widget_title',10,3);
function my_widget_title($title) {
$title = str_replace("[br]", "<br/>", $title);
return $title;
}

Adding this filter to functions.php, then using the shortcode [br] in the title of the widget did work for me, using News Pro, Genesis 2.0.2 and WP 3.8.1. Site is running PHP 5.4

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[Summer]

Just uploaded Epik to my test site and tried it, and it does work there, too.

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[pcgs51]

That worked! Thanks for hanging in there and helping out Summer! I actually was asking this on behalf of a friend in a different forum.

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Thanks,
pcgs51

[Summer]

Glad we worked around the forum glitches 🙂

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