Title: Plugin breaks widget area in admin
Last modified: September 14, 2017

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# Plugin breaks widget area in admin

 *  Resolved [ampedcreativ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ampedcreativ/)
 * (@ampedcreativ)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaks-widget-area-in-admin/)
 * All of a sudden, the Widget area in the admin section is no longer working. Through
   process of elimination, I narrowed it down to a conflict with the Cooked plugin.
   When I deactivate the plugin, the widgets come back. But when I activate it again,
   the widgets disappear. Any ideas?

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 *  Thread Starter [ampedcreativ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ampedcreativ/)
 * (@ampedcreativ)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaks-widget-area-in-admin/#post-9498636)
 * Ok, I think I found the line that seems to be causing the issue. It’s in cooked/
   cooked.php on line #85. Once I removed the following, my widgets came back:
 * `require_once(sprintf("%s/admin/widgets.php", CP_PLUGIN_DIR));`
 * Will removing this line hurt anything?
 *  Thread Starter [ampedcreativ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ampedcreativ/)
 * (@ampedcreativ)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaks-widget-area-in-admin/#post-9501262)
 * **UPDATE:**
 * Thanks to the support desk at Boxy Studio, we pinpointed the issue to one of 
   the Cooked widgets requiring more memory than our servers allowed. Due to there
   being over 4,000 recipes in the database, it was needing more resources to load
   the Widget page. I increased the memory limit on the server and all seems to 
   be well again.
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 7 months ago by [ampedcreativ](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ampedcreativ/).
 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
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 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaks-widget-area-in-admin/#post-9502335)
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 * ![](https://ps.w.org/cooked/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=2005204)
 * [Cooked - Recipe Management](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cooked/)
 * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/cooked/#faq)
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 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaks-widget-area-in-admin/#post-9502335)
 * Status: resolved