Title: Widgets Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Widgets * [BugsyTOchick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bugsytochick/) * (@bugsytochick) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-99/) * Hi I just updated my WordPress to 3.5 and my widgets don’t work… at all… can’t move them, can’t add them, can’t modify them…. * help… Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-99/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-99/page/2/?output_format=md) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-99/#post-3275056) * See [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/troubleshooting-wordpress-35-master-list](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/troubleshooting-wordpress-35-master-list) * [Pete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/perthmetro/) * (@perthmetro) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-99/#post-3275078) * same here… disabled all my plugins and still the same problem. * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-99/#post-3275079) * **[@pete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pete/)**: It is impolite to interrupt another poster’s ongoing thread with a question of your own. It causes significant problems for the forum’s volunteers and prevents us from being able to track issues by topic. Please [post your own topic](http://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting#postform). * Thread Starter [BugsyTOchick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bugsytochick/) * (@bugsytochick) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-99/#post-3275086) * I don’t think Pete is interrupting anything, this is how forums work… it actually makes me feel better that I’m not the only one suffering through this… It does create a big problem though, because I update my date daily in my widgets, and I’m stuck now with yesterday’s date… * anyhow I did read through your master list, and tried different solutions nothing worked. Including changing the theme to the default one… * what now? * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-99/#post-3275087) * > don’t think Pete is interrupting anything, this is how forums work * It’s not how these forums work. If you cannot work with us, then we cannot help you. * Have you tried: * – deactivating **all** plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works, re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s). * – switching to the Twenty Twelve theme to rule out any theme-specific problems. * – [resetting the plugins folder](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F) by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems. * – re-uploading all files & folders – **except** the wp-content folder – from a **fresh** download of WordPress. Make sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new ones. * Thread Starter [BugsyTOchick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bugsytochick/) * (@bugsytochick) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-99/#post-3275089) * This is my first time using WordPress forum, I’m not sure what the rules are here… I thought it’s like any other forum… anyhow, I’m going to do the suggested thing s once again and see what happens. * Is this an issue that happens a lot with this new version? * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-99/#post-3275091) * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome) A link to this page is posted in the Welcome message at the top of every forum. * > Is this an issue that happens a lot with this new version? * Problem plugins & themes? It happens with all updates if your theme and/or plugin developers haven’t kept their products up-to-date or tested in the 4+ months that the new version was in beta. This particular update is not especially eventful in that respect as you will see in [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/troubleshooting-wordpress-35-master-list](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/troubleshooting-wordpress-35-master-list) * It’s not a very long list. * Thread Starter [BugsyTOchick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bugsytochick/) * (@bugsytochick) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-99/#post-3275092) * I’m sure it’s not a theme problem because I did change it to the default theme and the issue was still there:(. Anyway let me go through all these steps so I don’t waste too much of your time. * Thank you for all your help. * Thread Starter [BugsyTOchick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bugsytochick/) * (@bugsytochick) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-99/#post-3275111) * I deactivated all plug ins – didn’t work on top of deactivating all plugins I change the theme to Twenty twelve – the problem still there 🙁 * – I deleted all the inactive plugins – problem still there… * is there a way to go back to the previous version? * Thread Starter [BugsyTOchick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bugsytochick/) * (@bugsytochick) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-99/#post-3275112) * sorry but this is just too much of a hassle, I have couple of other WordPress sites I need to take care of and I’m simply afraid to upgrade them now, I’m not sure what’s going on but I have never had any issues like that before. I really, really would like to go back to the previous version of WordPress, how can I do that? * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-99/#post-3275113) * Did you try resetting the plugins folder using Phpmyadmin? * Thread Starter [BugsyTOchick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bugsytochick/) * (@bugsytochick) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-99/#post-3275117) * I’m afraid that’s way beyond my scope of technical abilities… * Thread Starter [BugsyTOchick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bugsytochick/) * (@bugsytochick) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-99/#post-3275119) * I really would like to go back to the older version, how do i do that? I tried via my ftp site but now I cannot login to my account because it’s forcing me to upgrade again… * Thread Starter [BugsyTOchick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bugsytochick/) * (@bugsytochick) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-99/#post-3275120) * sorry, never mind. I have decided to go back to the previous version. Thanks for all your help. * Thread Starter [BugsyTOchick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bugsytochick/) * (@bugsytochick) * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-99/#post-3275121) * GREAT NEWS! It’s fixed it turns out that my server needed to upgrade php version to 5.2. Before the upgrade, I turned off all my plugins, and via ftp site changed the .htaccess to a different name, then upgraded my WordPress and went back to change .htaccess to its original name * no wall works! Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 16 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-99/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-99/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Widgets’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 16 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [ararya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ararya/) * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-99/page/2/#post-3275122) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics