Title: Javascript error affects behavior of meta box fields
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Javascript error affects behavior of meta box fields

 *  [helloadorable](https://wordpress.org/support/users/helloadorable/)
 * (@helloadorable)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-error-affects-behavior-of-meta-box-fields/)
 * Hello. We noticed that certain features of the Yoast SEO meta box don’t work 
   anymore.
 * At the end of each article in WordPress, we used to be able to see a summary 
   that would tell us if the keywords were used in the title, URL, meta, and how
   many times in the text. It’s not there now. Also, we don’t get a character count
   for the meta description, although we can see the meta description.
 * I happened to notice a javascript error in the console which says this:
    **uncaught
   error: no such method ‘instance’ for menu widget instance**
 * Some searching for this yielded some other people with the same problem and linked
   it back to the Yoast SEO plugin. Here’s an example:
    [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-error-with-wp-version-41?replies=6](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-error-with-wp-version-41?replies=6)
 * Thanks.
 * (Yoast SEO version 1.7.4)
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/)

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/javascript-error-affects-behavior-of-meta-box-fields/)
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