Have you ever wanted to do a little something extra special with a sidebar widget title?

If you have, you quickly learn that WordPress strips out all of the HTML tags, making it absolutely impossible to do so.

But there’s a way.

With this snippet, you can add some bold and italics text awesomeness if you like (or other HTML tags for that matter).

Here’s how:

How-To Add Simple HTML in a WordPress Widget Title

As with most WordPress snippets, you’ll want to drop this bit of code in your functions.php theme file or create/add this to a functionality plugin.

Here’s the snip:

//
$title = str_replace( ‘s]’, ‘strong>’, $title );
//
$title = str_replace( ‘e]’, ‘em>’, $title );

return $title;
}
add_filter( ‘widget_title’, ‘html_widget_title’ );
?>

And that’s it!

This example will take care of your bold and italics, but you can play around and add other HTML tags, too!

Have fun!

[via WP-Snippets]