Comments on: Disappearing Widgets – A Solution in WordPress 2.7

By: Pratish

Pratish — Thu, 06 May 2010 07:50:20 +0000

I had a similar issue on my Wonkie cartoon blog earlier this week – basically all the widgets got reset to the default and I lost all the text/ HTML code I had in my widgets.

I eventually tracked the error down to a dodgy character entry in one of the affiliate links I was using – it was a non-ASCII pound sign in my case – but apparently if you enter a non-ASCII character in these text widgets.. guess what, your entire textbox disappears as do all the others and that sidebar’s widget list gets reset to the standard WP widget list! After some painful rewrites I can strongly advise you CHECK for non-standard characters in your text widgets!!

By: tGriff

tGriff — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:38:06 +0000

Ughh! That sounds disappointing! I held my breath on one site and started breathing again once I saw the “non-active” widgets section – a new section on the 2.8 widgets admin panel. Is that what happened in your experience? Or did they just completely vanish. Have you had a repeat of the above?

Overall I’d rate 2.8 much better. This has been one of the bigger “Oh NOOO!” experiences for me with 2.7 and I am grateful it is being addressed.

Love the gravatar by the way!

By: Bill Courtney

Bill Courtney — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:28:46 +0000

I do not think it is handled much better in 2.8 since I just lost all my widgets. They disappeared not only from my home page but my widget edit page as well.

By: tGriff

tGriff — Mon, 25 May 2009 22:51:04 +0000

Sarah,

Once you’ve run the widget reset there will be no widgets on your site. The only reason I can imagine that you are seeing them on the site is if you have a caching system/plugin installed. PHPMySQL would not be needed after running widget reset – there is no data left in the widgets area, it has been reset.

Make sure you actually ran the reset after installing. If you still see widget data on the site turn off or delete any cache plugin, empty your browser cache etc.

Thanks for taking a moment to leave your response! (P.S. No site visible on the url you left with your comment??)

By: Sarah Flashing

Sarah Flashing — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:49:36 +0000

This widget is great, it installs easy to reset my widgets, however it didn’t fix the widgets that “disappeared” as they were moved around in the wp admin section yet continue to appear on the site. I’ve tried to remove them through phpmyadmin to no avail. Any suggestions?