[Plugin: Front-end Editor] Problem with text widgets

So you’re not able to edit text widgets using Front-end Editor 1.6?

Can you give me the URL of your site?

I’d rather not give out the link publicly, call me paranoid…

I verified that with the previously installed version it works as fine as ever; pulled it out of a recent backup.
Installing the 1.6 has definately caused the error as far as I can figure out.

Well, I can’t help you unless I have more information.

You’ll just have to use the older version of the plugin.

What else would you like to know apart from WP version [2.9]?

Can you paste the code used to register the sidebar? It’s usually located in functions.php in your theme’s folder and looks something like this:

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') ) {
	register_sidebar(array(
		'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
		'after_widget' => '</li>',
		'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
		'after_title' => '</h2>',
	));
}

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
    register_sidebar(array(
	'name'=>'sidebar_full',
        'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="sidebaritem %2$s"><div class="sidebarbox">',
        'after_widget' => '</div></li>',
        'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
        'after_title' => '</h2>',
    ));
    register_sidebar(array(
	'name'=>'sidebar_left',
        'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="sidebaritem %2$s"><div class="sidebarbox">',
        'after_widget' => '</div></li>',
        'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
        'after_title' => '</h2>',
    ));
    register_sidebar(array(
	'name'=>'sidebar_right',
        'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="sidebaritem %2$s"><div class="sidebarbox">',
        'after_widget' => '</div></li>',
        'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
        'after_title' => '</h2>',
    ));
    register_sidebar(array(
	'name'=>'footer_left',
        'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
        'after_widget' => '</div>',
        'before_title' => '<h3>',
        'after_title' => '</h3>',
    ));
    register_sidebar(array(
	'name'=>'footer_middle',
        'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
        'after_widget' => '</div>',
        'before_title' => '<h3>',
        'after_title' => '</h3>',
    ));
    register_sidebar(array(
	'name'=>'footer_right',
        'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
        'after_widget' => '</div>',
        'before_title' => '<h3>',
        'after_title' => '</h3>',
    ));

Only the sidebar_full is in use though.

Ah… now I see the problem:

'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="sidebaritem %2$s"><div

The plugin searches for the ‘widget’ class, but you have ‘sidebaritem’ instead.

Try changing that line to this:

'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget sidebaritem %2$s"><div

Thank you ver much scribu, it works now. ??

On a sidenote, does having two classes, or rather a different classname, interact in any other way with the blog/theme?
Just curious, is all…

The widgets might get some extra styles applied to them from the extra class, but besides that, no.

Hello and happy new years ??

I’ve just updated Front-end editor and I’ve the same problem.
It’s impossible now to change text widget.

I changed class to “widget sidebaritem %2$s” in my function.php page but no results.

Thanks to help me ??

if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
    register_sidebar(array(
        'before_widget' => '<li id="%1$s" class="widget sidebaritem %2$s">',
        'after_widget' => '</li>',
        'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitle">',
        'after_title' => '</h2>',
    ));

tomagladiator, what version of WP are you running?

Can you spare the site URL, or are you paranoid too? ??

https://www.centredepechecr.ca/
But I’m paranoid too ^^

I use actually WordPress 2.8.4

Thanks you Scribu ?? I appreciate your help

The markup looks alright. It should be working.

Btw, wouldn’t a single text widget be easier to work with, instead of having 10?