Appearance Widget screen not responsive

  • mikepve

    (@mikepve)


    8 years ago

    Hello,

    Here is my issue:
    When i pull up the appearance -> widgets page, I can see all of my available widgets along the left as usual and all the ones I have configured on the right, also as usual.
    However when I click the expand arrow (any of them on the screen) the menus will not expand, therefore I cannot remove widgets, or edit their contents. I also cannot drag widgets around to create new ones.
    I believe this may be due to the number of widgets I have showing and it may be bogging down in the browser memory- but thats just a guess.
    I have used alot of “Featured Page Widgets”, which are all hidden in one widget drop down. But if anyone knows how to re-gain some control of my widget screen please let me know!

    • This topic was modified 8 years ago by mikepve.
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  • Lucas Karpiuk

    (@karpstrucking)

    Hey @mikepve,

    The widget expansion relies on Javascript. In my experience, any time something in the admin that relies on Javascript stops working, it’s due to a Javascript error likely triggered by a plugin or theme conflict.

    Try temporarily disabling all your plugins to see if this fixes the issue. If so, re-enable them one by one until the issue returns to find out which plugin is at fault.

    Hope that helps!

    Thread Starter mikepve

    (@mikepve)

    Hey @karpstrucking,

    Well thank you for your help, i have found the plugin responsible. Sadly that plugin is so widely used in my site i fear i might be hooped. I have written to the plugin creator for further help.

    Plugin: Feature A Page Widget

    Lucas Karpiuk

    (@karpstrucking)

    @mikepve In the meantime as a workaround, you can just disable the plugin when you need to edit other widgets, then re-enable it when you’re done editing.

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