Daniel Richards
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Widgets missing in WordPress 5.8 upgrade@anuranjanverma I have a feeling the error is coming from a plugin. The top error where it says
wp.editPostis possibly a plugin trying to use one of the post editor APIs, but that wouldn’t be present in the widget editor.Do you have other plugins active? If so, you could try disabling plugins one-by-one and testing the page, hopefully that will help determine whether a plugin is causing the issue. If there’s a particular plugin that you find, definitely share the details here and I can do some further testing.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Widgets missing in WordPress 5.8 upgrade> Thanks. I do not know where the developer console is but I checked Cpanel and there are no errors on record for today or yesterday. The last errors were recorded on Sunday.
@adetutuijose Which browser do you use? I’m happy to provide some more detailed instructions for checking the developer tools.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Issue with Saving Web Stories@vishalseo1211 I’d recommend reaching out on the plugin’s support forums:
https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/web-stories/But maybe first check to see if anyone has a similar problem.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Widgets missing in WordPress 5.8 upgrade@adetutuijose While on the Appearance -> Widgets page, it’d be great if you could also open the browser developer tools, and look at the console tab to see if there are any errors in red text.
> Only widgets I have already set up are showing in the theme. The others are no longer accessible. What do I do.
There are block versions of the widgets, I’d recommend trying those first to see if they work for you. There are small differences—blocks don’t automatically have a title so a separate heading block is needed.
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this error message has appeared when I was both on WordPress 5.7, and on 5.8. It has also appeared regardless of any of the latest three Gutenberg versions. It has also been appearing while before updating Astra and Astra Pro to their latest versions.
That’s the first time you’ve shared this information. If it’s happening regardless of WordPress or Gutenberg version, then it’s most likely to be an incompatibility with another plugin.
I’ve already suggested that you try disabling plugins and re-enabling plugins one-by-one to try to determine whether another plugin might be causing the issue. That’s still the best suggestion I have.
As for https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-widgets/ , I’m not even using any widget areas in my site’s design.
I have no way of knowing that, I provided the suggestion based on what seemed to work for someone else. It’s a very harmless thing to try, you can remove the plugin if it has no effect.
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Forum: Alpha/Beta/RC
In reply to: Editor Issue with Custom Fields and Metabox area@goodwin_ It looks like this bug was reported, so others are experiencing it too:
https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/33668Forum: Alpha/Beta/RC
In reply to: Classic widgets versus block widgets – (clarifications)And then, the one (from the topic initially mentioned) why he considered that “The WordPress transition to block widgets breaks many custom classic widgets.” ?
Hard to go into specifics, as there was no information provided in the review.
There might be some incompatibilities if a plugin developer hasn’t tested their plugin with WordPress 5.8. There are a couple of known issues in particular, with technical details here:
If there are incompatibilities in WordPress 5.8 that stop you from being able to perform a particular workflow, the classic widgets plugin restores the previous widgets editor screens.
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Overnight Update to 5.8: Appearance > Customize Broke!@glsd Thanks for sharing that. There should be a fix for this in the next version of WordPress (5.8.1) – https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/33618.
The classic widgets plugin can be used in the meantime to get your site working again – https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-widgets/.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Plugin Menus in middle of editing page@bluestews Are you able to share a screenshot? The forum doesn’t support images, but if you can add one to an external service and share a link, that would be great.
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Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: [NSFW] Widgets Look Entirely Different@dnacannon It looks like the right-hand site was an existing site that you upgraded, and the left one is a new one?
I think the right hand site is using the Legacy Widget block to display the search and categories widgets.
It looks like you built the left site using WordPress 5.8 though, and in this version the search and categories blocks are being used instead of the widgets.
I think there are two options available to you:
1) You might be able to use blocks to replicate the appearance of the right-hand site. Delete the label on the search block. Switch the search block to using the ‘Button Inside’ appearance (there’s an option on the block toolbar). Add a heading block above the Categories block. After that, things should look pretty similar, with maybe a few minor styling differences.
2) The classic widgets plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-widgets/) is available, which would allow you to go back to the old widgets editor and use the heading and search widgets.@monica5 Investigation and diagnosis is the first step, there’s no way to release a fix without knowing what the cause of your problem is. Unfortunately in this case the error message is just a general one.
As this problem isn’t happening for WordPress installs with only Gutenberg installed, it’s most likely to be a result of and incompatibility between the changes in WordPress 5.8 and either your theme or a plugin.
It’d be worth checking to see if your theme has any updates, I saw another user updated their theme and it resolved an issue with the post editor not working.
If that doesn’t work, or the theme doesn’t have updates, please could you try installing the classic widgets plugin:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-widgets/Let me know whether either of those steps work.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [Gutenberg] Bad coding practice@drtonyb Thanks for pointing this out.
This is the relevant change – https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/31149
I’ve put together a fix – https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/pull/33639.
Feel free to drop into https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg any time to do code reviews 🙂
@monica5 Could you check which version of WordPress you’re using? It should be in the footer of most dashboard pages, or also on the Site Health page in the Tools menu.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: “breakpoints in post titles”Is there a reason why it needs to be in the title? If not, then you could use a heading block in the post content.
Alternatively, from what I remember, the title field does accept HTML, so you could make your title something like:
‘Title<br>Subtitle’It works, but it looks a bit ugly in the editor.
Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Can’t edit posts after 5.8@giblues Hmm, weird that the actual error is not included. While on the error message, if you go into the browser developer tools, go to the console tab, are there any red messages there? If there are, please could you copy/paste them here. Thanks.