Title: Widgets Corrupted???
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Widgets Corrupted???

 *  [Jeremy Gadd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jeremygadd/)
 * (@jeremygadd)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-corrupted/)
 * I don’t quite know how to describe this but in my Widgets section the boxes that
   surround the widget have collapsed and cannot be dragged around anymore. Below
   is a link to a screenshot:
 * [Example](https://www.dropbox.com/s/e37llmnyaozl4ml/widgets.JPG?dl=0)

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 *  [Patrick Garman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/patrickgarman/)
 * (@patrickgarman)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-corrupted/#post-5799309)
 * HI jeremygadd – Definitely very odd looking! My first guess would be that something
   within your site is breaking these styles and not so much WordPress on it’s own.
   Typically it is a plugin or theme that can cause these types of breaks. Try first
   clearing your browser cache and see if that resolves it (usually doesn’t, but
   fixes it often enough to warrant trying it first as the “easy” fix). If that 
   doesn’t work try disabling all your plugins on your site and changing over to
   a default WordPress theme without any modifications to it (Twenty Fifteen just
   came out, maybe try using that!). If the widgets now work after disabling all
   the third party code on the site then start turning everything back on one at
   a time. Each time you enable something look at your widgets again and see when
   they break – whatever you just activated before they broke is the culprit. Now
   depending on what is actually breaking the widgets would determine your course
   of action – if it is a “premium” theme or plugin you would need to contact the
   developer, a plugin on WordPress.org try that specific plugins section of the
   forum. Might be worth making sure everything on your site is updated as well 
   to make sure you have the latest updates.
 * Good luck!

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 * Last reply from: [Patrick Garman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/patrickgarman/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-corrupted/#post-5799309)
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