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Widgets don't drag and drop as advertised (60 posts)

  1. dcervenka
    Member
    Posted 5 months ago #

    @jstar198 - thanks! I had to deactivate the "WP Shopping Cart" (E-Commerce) plugin (v3.6.9) to get my widgets working again.

  2. ceeeeg
    Member
    Posted 5 months ago #

    My culprit ended up being the wp-shopping cart plugin. Deactivated and all is working good. Activate it and click Screen options and enable accessibility mode and you can manually work the widgets.

  3. timothym
    Member
    Posted 5 months ago #

    I did the same as msterri and it worked. Under screen options tab at the top right corner click enable accessibility mode and viola! It was about 20 minutes of searching the forum and a lot of frustration tho.

  4. bretto36
    Member
    Posted 5 months ago #

    An easy fix for this issue if it is caused by WP E-commerce plugin is to rename the file jquery-ui.js to something different eg. jquery-ui-old.js

    you will find this file in /wp-content/plugins/wp-shopping-cart/js/

    Hope that helps someone

  5. blocat
    Member
    Posted 5 months ago #

    WP E-Commerce plugin was my issue too, but altering the jquery file name didn't fix it for me.

    Not a big issue to deactivate the plug while I configure widgets and then reactivate when finished and all works fine

  6. mrsmessiness
    Member
    Posted 5 months ago #

    I get that enabling the accessibility mode with work wonders, however, I cannot click on that either. The menu doesn't pull down (same with the Help menu), none of my widgets will drag or open, I have no save button and all my plugins are deactivated.. any ideas?

  7. AlexDenning
    Member
    Posted 5 months ago #

    I've got the same problem as mrsmessines - accessibility mode doesn't drop down. On a fresh install of 2.8 with no plugins. Tried multiple browsers.

  8. bmose14
    Member
    Posted 4 months ago #

    Make sure you are on the widgets page. then click screen options on the top right, that is where you will find enable accessibility options. I spent about 1/2 hour researching this. so hope this helps someone!

  9. SpokenLikeaGeek
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    I have exactly the same problem but this is on a fresh install with no templates (other than the default) and no widgets. Also clicking on screen options doesn't do anything. I have tried on Chrome, Firefox and IE with no success and have reinstalled.

    Any ideas?

    N

  10. leighangela
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    I have the same problem. Not using Thesis. Tried deactivating all plugins and then tried, didn't help. Cannot click on the Screen Options button on the widgets page, but it does work on other pages!

    If I try to click the edit button of an active widget, my screen toggles down but nothing happens.

  11. leighangela
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    Thank goodness I fixed it. After closing down my browser and going back in, I was able to click the screen options button at the top. Why there is even a need to hit "accessibility" is beyond me, but I'm thankful I was able to fix the problem.

  12. raindance
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    Same problems, have disabled all plugins, reinstalled upgrade manually, tried with the default theme but still, can't click on the screen options button or help button (nothing happens when I do) and the widgets don't let you drag them anymore. In Corp theme, you can't open the right sidebar to see what's there. Tried in FF and Safari, after shutting down, clearing cookies and cache.

  13. DavaoBruce
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    I started a new site using WP 2.8.3
    All the widgets that were installed in the theme do not show in the widget section.

    How do I remove them or get them to show in the widget section?

    I am not a programer.

  14. raboodesign
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    That's just a cop-out to blame it on Plugins. What do Plugins have to do with the Widget Panel and Sidebars no longer working?

    Sorry, but it is true. I first also thought this was nonsense, but it really worked after I turned off all plugins.

    It turned out to be the Kimili Flash Embed plugin. So, I upgraded to the latest version and that one didn't work at all, so I just removed it.
    I was not even using it any way :-)
    Phew! This has taken me 7 hours to solve, just because I had no clue the plugins could be involved in the admin section, but come to think of it, they can influence any section, actually.
    I did halfheartedly deactivating some of them, but not this one.

  15. griffinjay
    Member
    Posted 2 months ago #

    Like several others here:

    * fresh install of 2.8.4 with no templates (other than the default)
    * no widgets
    * clicking on screen options doesn't do anything.
    * Chrome, Firefox and IE: no success
    * I have several other WordPress installs working fine and can open them in a separate browser tab and the problems don't exist at all with those sites.
    * I logged in from a separate computer. Same problem.

    Very weird. Grrrrrrr.

  16. griffinjay
    Member
    Posted 2 months ago #

    I reinstalled and it's now working with Windows 7 Chrome and IE 8 but not with Firefox 3.5.2. I disabled all FF add-ons. No luck.

    I did another install on a different web server. Same problem.

    Oddly, it works fine with with Mac OS 10.5.8 and Safari 4.0.3 and Firefox 3.5.2.

    So it appears to be a problem with Firefox on Windows 7 but only with this new install of WP. I have no problems with 3 other WP installations using Win 7 and FF 3.5.2, one of which was a fresh install last week.

    Very strange.

  17. griffinjay
    Member
    Posted 2 months ago #

    More weirdness: it works fine with Firefox 3.5.2 on Windows XP.

  18. griffinjay
    Member
    Posted 2 months ago #

    And after intalling the Simple Press Forum plugin, it now works with Windows 7 and Firefox 3.5.2.

    Go figure.

  19. drruss
    Member
    Posted 2 months ago #

    Widgets won't drag and
    screen options and Help don't work on any page.
    I thought I was learning about IM but listening to you guys it still sounds like gobel do gook to me so I can only hope wp fixes the glitch.
    What do you think?
    Think they will fix it... SOOOOOOOOOOON??

  20. drruss
    Member
    Posted 2 months ago #

    WOW I just looked at the dates on the posts. This problem started 2 MONTHS AGO???? I've only had the problem for a half an hour and thought everyone else did too. So much for them fixing it SOOOOOOOOOON. What can I do does anybody have a definitive answer that they can explain in very simple English?

  21. griffinjay
    Member
    Posted 2 months ago #

    drruss, the only thing I can suggest is add a few plugins from your Dashboard:
    http://yourdomainnamegoeshere/wp-admin/plugin-install.php

    For some reason, as soon as I did that, all the javascript started working. For me, this problem was only happening Firefox 3.5.2 in Windows 7.

  22. drruss
    Member
    Posted 2 months ago #

    griffinjay
    Thanks for that but I noticed above you said you installed Simple Press Forum plugin. I didn't see the Simple Press Forum plugin anywhere. So I read another post above where she said she closed her browser and opened it again and it worked. I've already done that a hundred times but tried it once more just to see and damn the widgets now drag and drop just fine.

    Hey like you say: go figure.

    It's as though someone went in there in the middle of the night, some good fairy, and fixed the problem for me.

  23. numeeja
    Member
    Posted 2 months ago #

    I had the same issue on one of my sites, but was able to fix it once I isolated the cause.

    The widgets stopped being draggable.

    I disabled my plugins and re-enabled them one-by-one and found that the WP Events Calendar plugin was the culprit.

    Dragging widgets works fine now without that plugin enabled.

  24. theideaofprogress
    Member
    Posted 2 months ago #

    I was having the same problem. I'm pretty sure the plugins were to blame. I added Event Calendar and then the widgets are screwed up. I remove it (a day later, after realizing the problem) and everything is back to normal.

    Figure out what you've installed, work your way backwards and deactivate them. I'm using Atahualpa, for the record.

  25. keoladonaghy
    Member
    Posted 2 months ago #

    I'm having this same issue with Widgets and other JS weirdness. It started with upgrading my 2.8.4 site. Bashed at that for a few days and gave up. I exported the data and installed a fresh copy of WP in a new database. Even this virgin site, only plugin active is Akismet, I cannot move or edit Widgets. Tried both stock themes. Even with Akisment disabled so absolutely no plugins, I cannot do anything to widgets.

    On my post page all JS related functionality seems to be gone as well.

    I've tried editing on Mac (FF and Safari) and on Windows, no difference.

    So unlike many of the previous comments, this has nothing to do with incompatible plugins or themes. Anyone? This was all fine until 2.8.4.

  26. keoladonaghy
    Member
    Posted 2 months ago #

    OK, since no one has any ideas what is causing this, I've dug a bit more. I went on a virgin WP website that my ISP set up on a new server, and compared the source of the widget.php page on that site with my site. On this new site on the new server, widgets.php works fine. On my, I cannot drag or edit widgets. This is what I found. On line 12 of the site that works I found this:

    var userSettings = {'url':'/~username/wordpress/','uid':'1','time':'1253238726'};

    This is the same line of code in my site:

    var userSettings = {'url':'/','uid':'1','time':'1253239183'};

    So on the working site, the URL includes the full path to his WP installation, including the WP directory itself. On mine, it only has the forward slash to my own root directory.

    I've dug around in the database using phpMyAdmin and can't find anything that looks like it's related to this, nor I figure out where in the php code this is determined.

    It's been almost a week since I crippled my site with the 2.8.4 update and no one seems to have any idea what is causing this same behavior on a freshly installed site. Any help is appreciated.

  27. fishingfool
    Member
    Posted 2 months ago #

    I had the same problem and it was due to the plugin "WP Events Calendar". Removed it and everything is okay.

  28. neamathla
    Member
    Posted 1 month ago #

    Like fishingfool, my inability to drag was fixed by deactivating "WP Events Calendar".

  29. deeleea
    Member
    Posted 1 month ago #

    WP Events Calendar was screwing it up for me too...

  30. M_Babar
    Member
    Posted 3 weeks ago #

    WordPress 2.8.5 widget drag drop not working.

    I was facing this problem last night and after goggling i found that it has some issue with the plug ins..

    I go to my plug ins panel and deactive one by one and i found that featured content gallery plug in has the problem.

    I did all the widget work and reactive the plug in all fine.

    But this should be fix it out.

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