Title: tag breaking wp-admin Last modified: October 16, 2018 --- # tag breaking wp-admin * Resolved [barrydollar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barrydollar/) * (@barrydollar) * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-breaking-wp-admin/) * ON our home page, logged-in and trying to edit, we are having problems with the editor not functioning properly. I reached out to our theme provider and their response was that Custom Sidebar plug-in is breaking things. Here is their explanation and suggestion that the fix needs to be made by the plug-in author: * Checking the page I noticed there are random < a > (link) tags in the admin page where they shouldn’t be; that’s breaking the DOM structure of the page (please see the attached screenshot) and generating the error message that you see. It took a while however managed to find out what piece of HTML was causing this: * ///**To change the sidebar for Front Page** - Go to the [Widgets page](https://gabaptist.staging.wpengine.com/wp-admin/widgets.php) - Click on "Sidebar Location" - Open the "Archive-Types" tab - Choose "Front Page" *

[](https://i0.wp.com/gabaptist.staging.wpengine.com/wp-content/plugins/custom-sidebars/assets/img/metabox/frontpage-info.png?ssl=1) * . That belongs to the Custom Sidebars plugin and when I deactivated that plugin the issue was gone. Please contact the plugin’s support and ask them to fix the broken HTML code. - This topic was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by [barrydollar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barrydollar/). - This topic was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by [barrydollar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barrydollar/). - This topic was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by [barrydollar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barrydollar/). * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Ftag-breaking-wp-admin%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * Thread Starter [barrydollar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barrydollar/) * (@barrydollar) * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-breaking-wp-admin/#post-10785169) * Sorry, I do not know how to add the code above without it rendering. Hope this still makes sense. * [Imran – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support9/) * (@wpmudev-support9) * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-breaking-wp-admin/#post-10786715) * Hello [@barrydollar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barrydollar/) * Hope all is well! * Please let us know, is the last `` is causing an issue? I couldn’t find from my end a missing/orphan tag. * ```

To change the sidebar for Front Page

``` * Please share here a code one more time, that was shared with you. To wrap it, please click on the code button as shown in this screenshot: [https://monosnap.com/file/PxbVM0CFFT8byi764HtkTpENLRtDhi](https://monosnap.com/file/PxbVM0CFFT8byi764HtkTpENLRtDhi) * Let us know which theme you’re using on your site? * Please advise, * Cheers, Nastia - This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by [Imran - WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support9/). - This reply was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by [Imran - WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support9/). * Thread Starter [barrydollar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barrydollar/) * (@barrydollar) * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-breaking-wp-admin/#post-10793540) * We are using Themify.me Ultra theme. Themify’s support found the your code with the open ‘a’ tag.here it is… * ```

To change the sidebar for Front Page

``` * [Imran – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support9/) * (@wpmudev-support9) * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-breaking-wp-admin/#post-10801798) * Hello [@barrydollar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barrydollar/) * Hope all is well! * In a code you’ve shared, I can confirm there is a missing `` tag. Although I can’t reproduce this structure on my end, on a vanilla WordPress install the HTML structure is correct. Would you please try to re-install the plugin and see if all is well? * If the issue still there, please let us know if the Editor is not working, when all the plugins, besides Custom Sidebars, are deactivated? If all is well, start activating one plugin at a time, every time testing if the Editor is working. * Let us know how it went! * Kind regards, Nastia * Thread Starter [barrydollar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barrydollar/) * (@barrydollar) * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-breaking-wp-admin/#post-10807050) * This is still an issue, and another person has identified the exact same problem: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unclosed-in-custom_sidebars_replace_not_allowed-function/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/unclosed-in-custom_sidebars_replace_not_allowed-function/) * I have already gone through the process of turning off all plug-ins and reactivating one by one. The problem is with the custom sidebar plug-in. * Thread Starter [barrydollar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barrydollar/) * (@barrydollar) * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-breaking-wp-admin/#post-10808675) * It looks like my theme support guys have identified the issue with your plug- in. Read their last response: * “I’m not sure what they mean by “not able to duplicate the issue” as there’s nothing to duplicate: this is invalid HTML markup. I’ve attached an screenshot of where this is in their plugin’s code, you can see the path to the PHP file, and I’ve highlighted the line with the invalid HTML markup as well. * The same screenshot can also explain point #2 you made: “Whatever page is set as the home page cannot be edited in the backend. Same page, if not set as the home page, can be edited”. Notice the if ( $is_front ) line and others below it, that invalid markup is added if the page meets certain conditions. * See the screenshot of the invalid markuu: [https://themify.me/wp-content/uploads/forum/2018/10/1-7.png](https://themify.me/wp-content/uploads/forum/2018/10/1-7.png) * [Predrag – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support1/) * (@wpmudev-support1) * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-breaking-wp-admin/#post-10813876) * Hi [@barrydollar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barrydollar/), * Sorry for the confusion, we have passed the issue over to our developers and it will be fixed in the next release, we’re just not able to replicate theme issue on our installation which we usually like to have in order to test the fix before pushing it live. But nevertheless, the typo in code is indeed there and will be fixed with next version. * Cheers, Predrag * [Predrag – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support1/) * (@wpmudev-support1) * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-breaking-wp-admin/#post-10814109) * Just an update that we have released new version to address this issue so it should be all good now 🙂 * Cheers, Predrag Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘tag breaking wp-admin’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/custom-sidebars/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=1414065) * [Custom Sidebars - Dynamic Sidebar Classic Widget Area Manager](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-sidebars/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-sidebars/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/custom-sidebars/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/custom-sidebars/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/custom-sidebars/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/custom-sidebars/reviews/) * 8 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [Predrag – WPMU DEV Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpmudev-support1/) * Last activity: [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/tag-breaking-wp-admin/#post-10814109) * Status: resolved