I have a travel blog, and wanted to add a weather button, a badge showing an expat blogging group that I belong to, and a German Word of the Day thing. I've used the Text Widget to add code to my sidebar, but nothing is showing up correctly. When I copy/paste code in and hit "save", WordPress erases most or all of the code. The weather button appears as a link, the badge doesn't appear at all, and the German Word of the Day appears as jumbled code.
Please help; I can't figure this out!

