The Amazing Vanishing Widget!!!

  • snafu7x7

    (@snafu7x7)


    16 years, 9 months ago

    This is the flakiest thing I’ve seen. I went to drag a widget onto my center-column area and I inadvertently dropped it on an existing widget (the ‘Members’ widget). When I checked the site, it was spitting out an error about a missing argument so I went back into the admin to remove it. It had completely vanished! So now there’s no way to remove it because I cant even see it to delete it. I tried switching back to the default theme, disabling all my plugins, etc etc trying to get back to the base state but to no avail.

    Worse still, it seems that somehow dropping it onto the ‘Members’ widget swallowed it, so now anytime I have that Members widget anywhere on my site it displays the offending error for the widget I was initially trying to add! Its like the Members widget assimilated the bad one!

    Searching the forums there are dozens of threads related to this issue but not a single admin or mod has spoken up to tell us how to resolve it. Can someone PLEASE help, I don’t care if I need to do it manually thru code or in the database or whatever I just need to find out where the issue is so I can fix it

    thanks

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  • TonyVitabile

    (@tonyvitabile)

    16 years, 9 months ago

    I have an issue with a widget that won’t display, too. It used to display when I first added it to the sidebar, but not now. Love to hear the answer to this one.

    There’s a setting in the meta table that lists installed widgets, I don’t know what it’s called but I think it has widget in the name. I have no idea what any of the stuff in that option mean. But if you delete that row, all of the widget assignments you’ve made will disappear and you can recreate the widget layout & maybe that will fix your problem.

    Tony

    Thread Starter snafu7x7

    (@snafu7x7)

    16 years, 9 months ago

    are you talking about the wp_6_options table?

    I see entries in there for widget stuff (widget_search, widget_meta, widget_tag_cloud, etc), but they’re all set to the same met value:

    a:2:{i:2;a:0:{}s:12:”_multiwidget”;i:1;}

    Can someone please address this? It a HUGE bug and I think we’d all be sympathetic if someone were just to tell us how to get back to the status quo

    Thread Starter snafu7x7

    (@snafu7x7)

    16 years, 9 months ago

    no replies huh?

    typical

    Mark / t31os

    (@t31os_)

    16 years, 9 months ago

    Place this in your template file somewhere..

    <?php $wp_widgets = get_option('sidebars_widgets');
print '<pre>';
print_r($wp_widgets);
print '</pre>';
?>

    Should give you an idea of what widgets are active or not..

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