Title: Widget Issues
Last modified: July 23, 2019

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# Widget Issues

 *  Resolved [wilhud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wilhud/)
 * (@wilhud)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-issues-10/)
 * We’ve recently encountered an issue on one of our websites. When visiting the
   Widgets page and making changes to a widget, the following javascript error is
   thrown…
 * Error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: The site is experiencing technical
   difficulties.
    jquery.js:2:12681 init /wp-content/plugins/wordfence/js/admin.
   ajaxWatcher.1563297204.js?ver=7.3.5:17
 * The error causes any widget that is saved to spin and the changes never get saved.
   WordPress and the plugins on the server are all current. The server is a Linux
   CentOS server running PHP 7.2.19. WordPress is at 5.2.2 and WordFence at 7.3.5.
 * I tried going to Whitelisted URLs and changing the “Monitor background requests
   from an administrator’s web browser for false positives” to only Admin Panel 
   based on some advice I found in another post but that did not seem to change 
   anything.
 * Any help or suggestions is greatly appreciated.
 * Thanks,
    Wil

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 *  [wfdave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfdave/)
 * (@wfdave)
 * [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-issues-10/#post-11761514)
 * Hi [@wilhud](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wilhud/),
 * We’ve had reports of users getting syntax errors as a result of `admin.ajaxWatcher`,
   and i’m happy to report that this has been fixed and updated within the upcoming
   releases. (Internal Ref: #FB2102)
 * In the meantime, what you can do is disable both `Front-end` and `Admin Panel`
   within Wordfence -> All Options ( [https://i.imgur.com/J7QpocC.png](https://i.imgur.com/J7QpocC.png))
 * Note that once you’ve done that, you need to fully refresh the page with the 
   widgets.
 * Dave

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 * Last reply from: [wfdave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wfdave/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-issues-10/#post-11761514)
 * Status: resolved