Title: cannot edit – hangs
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# cannot edit – hangs

 *  Resolved [Melissa1968](https://wordpress.org/support/users/melissa1968/)
 * (@melissa1968)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-hangs/)
 * Thanks for your excellent plug in…which had been working splendidly until all
   of a sudden, the accordion and media box widgets now hang (forever) when I click
   edit. This happens in every instance in which they are used and is rendering 
   them unusable 🙁
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/widgets-for-siteorigin/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/widgets-for-siteorigin/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Adi Rao](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iamadi/)
 * (@iamadi)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-hangs/#post-7687219)
 * Hi Melissa1968,
 * This is likely a SiteOrigin Page Builder and WordFence issue. The issue is that
   WordFence is initially very strict so things like the Learning Mode do definitely
   help in resolving issues like this one.
 * However, if you want to “skip” the learning process and just use your widgets
   you can do so pretty easily. Go to the affected widget and open it up, don’t 
   get “blocked” yet. Instead open up another tab on WP Admin > WordFence > Live
   Traffic and filter it by blocked traffic. Then make an adjustment to your accordion
   widget and you’ll get blocked. Go back to the Wordfence tab and press the whitelist
   param from FireWall button. This is 100% safe as the contents of the field are
   not at all close to what would be required for an XSS attack. (it’s really quite
   odd it would even suggest such a thing…).
 * [https://i.imgur.com/bEmUkPi.png](https://i.imgur.com/bEmUkPi.png)
 * Cheers,
 * Adi
 *  Thread Starter [Melissa1968](https://wordpress.org/support/users/melissa1968/)
 * (@melissa1968)
 * [9 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-hangs/#post-8150524)
 * Thanks for the reply Adi but this does not work 🙁
 * First, I don’t have the option of making an adjustment to the widget – when I
   click edit to open the widget everything hangs. Second, when I try to do this
   my making a new widget from scratch, nothing related shows up in the live traffic.
 * What now?
 * Thanks!
 *  Plugin Author [Adi Rao](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iamadi/)
 * (@iamadi)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-hangs/#post-8344335)
 * Hi Melissa1968,
 * Sorry for the delay in replying. This is an issue with The SiteOrigin Page Builder.
   You could get better help from the SiteOrigin forums. I believe they have come
   across similar problems in the past. Here is the link [https://siteorigin.com/thread/](https://siteorigin.com/thread/).
 * Hope this is helpful.
 * Adi
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 6 months ago by [Adi Rao](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iamadi/).
 *  Thread Starter [Melissa1968](https://wordpress.org/support/users/melissa1968/)
 * (@melissa1968)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-hangs/#post-8717768)
 * Hello, I am attempting to edit the page using these widgets again and am encountering
   the same issue. Last year I resorted to re-creating them since I could not edit,
   but that is not an option this year. I have deactivated word Fence so that cannot
   be the issue. Please help!!!! Thank you.

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 * Last reply from: [Melissa1968](https://wordpress.org/support/users/melissa1968/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-hangs/#post-8717768)
 * Status: resolved