Link Widget acting weird

  • Medron Pryde

    (@medron-pryde)


    3 years, 1 month ago

    I recently ran into an issue creating a new links widget on my site. I use multiple links widgets so I can put different types of links in their own individual boxes.

    After updating to the newest version of wordpress and adding a new link widget, I noted an odd issue. The new widget shows the description and ratings of each link, even though I tell it not to. All existing widgets act as normal for me, but the new widget on the top left refuses to accept that I don’t want to show those.

    I can select that I don’t want it to show those in the dashboard, and the dashboard preview will show that it does not show those. But the moment I click on the update button to save the changes, it goes back to all displays turned on, including the description and the score of the links.

    I go to dashboard, appearance, widgets. Select up left widget and it shows all four displays engaged. I click off the description and score. I hit update. It shows pure links, without any description or score in the updated menu. In the dashboard preview. The site says it has saved. I get the popup. Everything looks good.

    I go to the site, and it shows the description and the score. I go back to the dashboard, appearance, widgets, select upper left widget, and it shows all four displays engaged again. I can do this over and over again and have done so. It accepts my changes. it shows my changes. And the moment I leave the dashboard, it resets THAT link widget only to default. All other link widgets that predate the shift to the new wordpress remain as is with no changes.

    I honestly have no idea what to do, and am wondering if anybody else has run into a fix for this.

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  • Thread Starter Medron Pryde

    (@medron-pryde)

    3 years, 1 month ago

    So… I’m going to answer my own question with what I just did to fix it. A bloody hail mary. I have been trying to fix this from within the dashboard, and for some reason the widget would not save the changes.

    So I saw an option on the right side to “Manage with live preview.” That took me to a live view of the website, where I could select different elements to modify. I selected the upper left link widget, told it to get rid of the two displays I didn’t want, hit publish on top, and it went through. Everything saved, and it looks good.

    So for whatever reason, any changes I make in the dashboard don’t work right with the new wordpress. But changes I make in live preview DO work. I still have no idea why, but it worked.

    So I guess I solved my own question and have no idea why I needed to use such a roundabout method to do it, and why the dashboard changes don’t take while the live preview changes do take.

    I still have no clue. 🙂

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