Widgets don’t drag and drop as advertised

  • Just installed 2.8 on a new domain.

    The widgets say to drag and drop onto the sidebar, but in Firefox and Safari, they don’t work – they don’t drag. I can’t grab them, clicking on one produces a little hand icon, but the hand never closes and the widget never moves. Help?

    — Note —

    Just killed that installation and installed again. Still broken. I’ve tried refreshing pages, restarting browsers, nothing works. What’s the point of having an installed blog if the sidebars are completely unusable?

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  • That worked for me. Interesting. Hope they fix it!

    Glad it helped fella…

    That’s just a cop-out to blame it on Plugins. What do Plugins have to do with the Widget Panel and Sidebars no longer working?

    I just disabled all of my plugins and I’m still having the same problem. I’m also running FF

    I just resolved my issues when i updated to 2.8.

    First issue being something with my taxonomy object, giving an error in /wp-admin/menu.php (line 38), adding (array) casting in the foreach there solved the problem for now.

    foreach ( (array)$wp_taxonomies as $tax ) {

    Second issue was indeed the drag n drop widget interface. I wasn’t able to drag or drop, just the cursor toggled to dragmode.
    I traced this issue back to my own ecommerce plugin, which makes use of the jQuery UI library.
    Commenting out my own wp_enqueue_script lines for these library files, and making my own script dependable on the jquery-ui-core file fixed everything.

    I recommend everybody to check the plugins they use, to make sure none of them actually include their own version of the standard WP Script files (jQuery, jQuery UI, Scriptaculous, etc).

    And as a personal note: I agree with azaozz when he claims the issue can often be traced back to the plugin developers.

    As an active webdeveloper, I often make use of open-source CMS software, and one of the most important things to check when creating modules (Drupal :’)) or plugins (WordPress), is to make sure you use to apropriate (standard) methods and libraries of that system, instead of just adding your own versions to make it work.

    Hope to have helped someone!

    It’s really easy to fix this.
    I just followed this link and works like a charm
    https://www.mwd.com/2009/06/wordpress-28-widgets-drag-drop-not-working/

    Happy?

    Link doesn’t work

    I was having a lot of problems with the widgets — difficulty dragging and dropping them onto the sidebars, mulitple widgets appearing when I tried moving them around within a sidebar, and worst of all, most of the time I couldn’t save the contents of the text widgets — when I hit ‘save,’ the contents disappeared.

    I tried switching to the Accessibility Mode (under Screen Options) and that solved ALL the problems!

    using arthemia premium theme and having this issue.

    Was having the problem where I couldn’t drag anything on the Admin backend.
    Deactivated the “WP Shopping Cart” (E-Commerce) plugin and is back to working again. I suppose will just have to wait until they release a fixed version.
    Hope this helps anyone else out there.

    I’m unable to drag and drop widgets as well. I’m using the Thesis theme with 3 plugins: Akismet, Openhook, and Add to Any.

    grottler – If you’re using Thesis 1.5, the link posted above by jsieghart will solve your problem, but check your email for notification of Thesis 1.5.1, just released. No fix by users is necessary with it.

    I upgraded to Thesis 1.5.1 and I can now drag widgets in WP 2.8! Much thanks Ellaella.

    I’m not using Thesis and was having the widget problem. For me it was the Intense Debate plug-in. Upgraded to the newest version and the problem vanished!

    You’re welcome, grottler. Happy to help.

    @jstar198 – thanks! I had to deactivate the “WP Shopping Cart” (E-Commerce) plugin (v3.6.9) to get my widgets working again.

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