Wordpress: force not HTML escape in text widget?

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I'm using Wordpress with the Twitter Pro widget, and I want to include a link in the title. (Actually an image and a link, but keeping the question simple...)

I'm using the following code in a Wordpress text widget in the sidebar.

[twitter-widget username="myname" items="5" hiderss="true" 
title="<a href='#'>My Title</a>" hidereplies="true"][/twitter-widget]

It works in my version of Chrome, but Firefox HTML-escapes the title, and I end up with:

<a href='#'>My Title</a>

visible to the naked eye in my sidebar.

What can I do? Is there a way I can force the browser not to HTML-escape this?

Thanks!

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1 Answers

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Check if your theme(functions.php) or widget has this code inside it:

add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');

since you are using shortcodes in widget which are not allowed by default in wordpress.