Title: [Plugin: Front-end Editor] Problem with text widgets
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Front-end Editor] Problem with text widgets

 *  [scribu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribu/)
 * (@scribu)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-problem-with-text-widgets/)
 * ashaman wrote:
 * >  Hello and happy new year!
   >  The recent upgrade disabled the Text & Html widget
   > editing for me. Up until yesterday everything worked fine. Any ideas on what
   > I could check?

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 *  Thread Starter [scribu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribu/)
 * (@scribu)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-problem-with-text-widgets/#post-1327557)
 * So you’re not able to edit text widgets using Front-end Editor 1.6?
 * Can you give me the URL of your site?
 *  [ashaman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashaman/)
 * (@ashaman)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-problem-with-text-widgets/#post-1327682)
 * I’d rather not give out the link publicly, call me paranoid…
 * I verified that with the previously installed version it works as fine as ever;
   pulled it out of a recent backup.
    Installing the 1.6 has definately caused the
   error as far as I can figure out.
 *  Thread Starter [scribu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribu/)
 * (@scribu)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-problem-with-text-widgets/#post-1327686)
 * Well, I can’t help you unless I have more information.
 * You’ll just have to use the older version of the plugin.
 *  [ashaman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashaman/)
 * (@ashaman)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-problem-with-text-widgets/#post-1327691)
 * What else would you like to know apart from WP version [2.9]?
 *  Thread Starter [scribu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribu/)
 * (@scribu)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-problem-with-text-widgets/#post-1327709)
 * Can you paste the code used to register the sidebar? It’s usually located in 
   functions.php in your theme’s folder and looks something like this:
 *     ```
       if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ) {
       	register_sidebar(array(
       		'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
       		'after_widget' => '</li>',
       		'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
       		'after_title' => '</h2>',
       	));
       }
       ```
   
 *  [ashaman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashaman/)
 * (@ashaman)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-problem-with-text-widgets/#post-1327711)
 *     ```
       if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
           register_sidebar(array(
       	'name'=>'sidebar_full',
               'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="sidebaritem %2$s"><div class="sidebarbox">',
               'after_widget' => '</div></li>',
               'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
               'after_title' => '</h2>',
           ));
           register_sidebar(array(
       	'name'=>'sidebar_left',
               'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="sidebaritem %2$s"><div class="sidebarbox">',
               'after_widget' => '</div></li>',
               'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
               'after_title' => '</h2>',
           ));
           register_sidebar(array(
       	'name'=>'sidebar_right',
               'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="sidebaritem %2$s"><div class="sidebarbox">',
               'after_widget' => '</div></li>',
               'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
               'after_title' => '</h2>',
           ));
           register_sidebar(array(
       	'name'=>'footer_left',
               'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
               'after_widget' => '</div>',
               'before_title' => '<h3>',
               'after_title' => '</h3>',
           ));
           register_sidebar(array(
       	'name'=>'footer_middle',
               'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
               'after_widget' => '</div>',
               'before_title' => '<h3>',
               'after_title' => '</h3>',
           ));
           register_sidebar(array(
       	'name'=>'footer_right',
               'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
               'after_widget' => '</div>',
               'before_title' => '<h3>',
               'after_title' => '</h3>',
           ));
       ```
   
 * Only the sidebar_full is in use though.
 *  Thread Starter [scribu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribu/)
 * (@scribu)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-problem-with-text-widgets/#post-1327732)
 * Ah… now I see the problem:
 * `'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="sidebaritem %2$s"><div`
 * The plugin searches for the ‘widget’ class, but you have ‘sidebaritem’ instead.
 * Try changing that line to this:
 * `'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget sidebaritem %2$s"><div`
 *  [ashaman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ashaman/)
 * (@ashaman)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-problem-with-text-widgets/#post-1327737)
 * Thank you ver much scribu, it works now. 🙂
 * On a sidenote, does having two classes, or rather a different classname, interact
   in any other way with the blog/theme?
    Just curious, is all…
 *  Thread Starter [scribu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribu/)
 * (@scribu)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-problem-with-text-widgets/#post-1327753)
 * The widgets might get some extra styles applied to them from the extra class,
   but besides that, no.
 *  [tomagladiator](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomagladiator/)
 * (@tomagladiator)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-problem-with-text-widgets/#post-1327756)
 * Hello and happy new years 🙂
 * I’ve just updated Front-end editor and I’ve the same problem.
    It’s impossible
   now to change text widget.
 * I changed class to “widget sidebaritem %2$s” in my function.php page but no results.
 * Thanks to help me 🙂
 *  [tomagladiator](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomagladiator/)
 * (@tomagladiator)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-problem-with-text-widgets/#post-1327757)
 *     ```
       if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
           register_sidebar(array(
               'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget sidebaritem %2$s">',
               'after_widget' => '</li>',
               'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
               'after_title' => '</h2>',
           ));
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [scribu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribu/)
 * (@scribu)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-problem-with-text-widgets/#post-1327762)
 * tomagladiator, what version of WP are you running?
 * Can you spare the site URL, or are you paranoid too? 🙂
 *  [tomagladiator](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomagladiator/)
 * (@tomagladiator)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-problem-with-text-widgets/#post-1327768)
 * [http://www.centredepechecr.ca/](http://www.centredepechecr.ca/)
    But I’m paranoid
   too ^^
 * I use actually WordPress 2.8.4
 *  [tomagladiator](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomagladiator/)
 * (@tomagladiator)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-problem-with-text-widgets/#post-1327771)
 * Thanks you Scribu 🙂 I appreciate your help
 *  Thread Starter [scribu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scribu/)
 * (@scribu)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-front-end-editor-problem-with-text-widgets/#post-1327773)
 * The markup looks alright. It should be working.
 * Btw, wouldn’t a single text widget be easier to work with, instead of having 
   10?

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