Text widget: bio, info and quotes on your page
The text widget is the tile for everything you want to say in words: the story of your crew, the house rules of your venue, your artist bio or a quote from a review. You can add it to any page – profile, venue, crew, event series and event. It can be added by the page’s owner and by its admins and moderators.
How to write a text
- Tap “Edit” in the bar of your page, then “Add widget” or one of the “Widget” buttons between the tiles.
- In the “Content” group choose the “Text” tile. “Add text” opens.
- Optional: enter a heading under “General”, for example “About me”. Left empty, the tile has no heading.
- Under “Content”, write into the field “Write here – or paste a text.”
- To write in a second language too, tap “Add language”, choose one such as “German”, and write the text again in its tab at the top.
- Tap “Insert”, then “Save” in the bar at the top.
Every language has its own tab.
Formatting
Above the text field sits the “Formatting” bar with “Bold”, “Italic”, “Underline”, “Subheading”, “Numbered list”, “Bulleted list” and “Link”. For a link, select a word, tap “Link”, enter the “Link address” and tap “Add link”. Only web addresses (https://…) and email addresses (mailto:…) can be linked; links open in a new tab.
If you paste text from another program, EDM Hub removes text colours and fonts, images and tables (their text is kept) and tells you what it removed.
Show as a quote
Under “Preview” you find the switch “Show as a quote”. The tile then shows the text as a quote. The last paragraph is the source; the dash before it is added automatically.
Length and languages
- A text holds up to 20,000 characters, formatting included. At the bottom of the window you see “… characters left”; if you go over, it says “… characters over”.
- Every language in the bar needs a text. If one is missing, the bottom line says, for example, “Text is still missing for German.” Write it – or remove the language with the cross on its tab or through “Manage languages”.
- To add a language, tap “Add language” or “Manage languages”.
What visitors see
Visitors see the text in their language. If it isn’t there, EDM Hub shows the English text or another language you wrote and marks it, for example with “In German”. If the heading is missing in a language, visitors see it in English or in another language you wrote. Longer texts work well in a tile with the width “Full” or “Half”.
This is how the text widget looks on the page.
When something doesn’t work
- “Insert” does nothing – Read the line at the bottom of the window: “Write some text” means the field is still empty; “Text is still missing for …” names the language that has no text yet.
- A link isn’t set – Only web addresses and email addresses can be linked. If you type the address without https://, EDM Hub adds it; the line “Becomes …” below the field shows you the result.
- The heading is refused – It can be at most 200 characters long.