Holy crap! Thanks Japan!!!
I was just about to pull the trigger on the uninstall and spend the next few hours putting the pieces back together.
Not sure what the deal was, but mine is back to normal now too. Thanks!
tried deactivating all plugins and changing themes. Nothing worked. I’m going to do a complete uninstall/reinstall of wordpress. That should work. I’ll post my results here
I just installed the image widget plugin to see if I could get an image into the sidebar/widget. No luck. It allowed me to fill in all the fields, but when I hit “save” it dumps everything, just like the text widget does.
I can’t figure out what would have cause this.
Again, everything was working fine until I attempted to enter some html into a text widget earlier, and now it won’t save anything I input.