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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  • My culprit ended up being the wp-shopping cart plugin. Deactivated and all is working good. Activate it and click Screen options and enable accessibility mode and you can manually work the widgets.

    I did the same as msterri and it worked. Under screen options tab at the top right corner click enable accessibility mode and viola! It was about 20 minutes of searching the forum and a lot of frustration tho.

    An easy fix for this issue if it is caused by WP E-commerce plugin is to rename the file jquery-ui.js to something different eg. jquery-ui-old.js

    you will find this file in /wp-content/plugins/wp-shopping-cart/js/

    Hope that helps someone

    WP E-Commerce plugin was my issue too, but altering the jquery file name didn’t fix it for me.

    Not a big issue to deactivate the plug while I configure widgets and then reactivate when finished and all works fine

    I get that enabling the accessibility mode with work wonders, however, I cannot click on that either. The menu doesn’t pull down (same with the Help menu), none of my widgets will drag or open, I have no save button and all my plugins are deactivated.. any ideas?

    I’ve got the same problem as mrsmessines – accessibility mode doesn’t drop down. On a fresh install of 2.8 with no plugins. Tried multiple browsers.

    Make sure you are on the widgets page. then click screen options on the top right, that is where you will find enable accessibility options. I spent about 1/2 hour researching this. so hope this helps someone!

    I have exactly the same problem but this is on a fresh install with no templates (other than the default) and no widgets. Also clicking on screen options doesn’t do anything. I have tried on Chrome, Firefox and IE with no success and have reinstalled.

    Any ideas?

    N

    I have the same problem. Not using Thesis. Tried deactivating all plugins and then tried, didn’t help. Cannot click on the Screen Options button on the widgets page, but it does work on other pages!

    If I try to click the edit button of an active widget, my screen toggles down but nothing happens.

    Thank goodness I fixed it. After closing down my browser and going back in, I was able to click the screen options button at the top. Why there is even a need to hit “accessibility” is beyond me, but I’m thankful I was able to fix the problem.

    Same problems, have disabled all plugins, reinstalled upgrade manually, tried with the default theme but still, can’t click on the screen options button or help button (nothing happens when I do) and the widgets don’t let you drag them anymore. In Corp theme, you can’t open the right sidebar to see what’s there. Tried in FF and Safari, after shutting down, clearing cookies and cache.

    I started a new site using WP 2.8.3
    All the widgets that were installed in the theme do not show in the widget section.

    How do I remove them or get them to show in the widget section?

    I am not a programer.

    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?

    Sorry, but it is true. I first also thought this was nonsense, but it really worked after I turned off all plugins.

    It turned out to be the Kimili Flash Embed plugin. So, I upgraded to the latest version and that one didn’t work at all, so I just removed it.
    I was not even using it any way ??
    Phew! This has taken me 7 hours to solve, just because I had no clue the plugins could be involved in the admin section, but come to think of it, they can influence any section, actually.
    I did halfheartedly deactivating some of them, but not this one.

    Like several others here:

    * fresh install of 2.8.4 with no templates (other than the default)
    * no widgets
    * clicking on screen options doesn’t do anything.
    * Chrome, Firefox and IE: no success
    * I have several other WordPress installs working fine and can open them in a separate browser tab and the problems don’t exist at all with those sites.
    * I logged in from a separate computer. Same problem.

    Very weird. Grrrrrrr.

    I reinstalled and it’s now working with Windows 7 Chrome and IE 8 but not with Firefox 3.5.2. I disabled all FF add-ons. No luck.

    I did another install on a different web server. Same problem.

    Oddly, it works fine with with Mac OS 10.5.8 and Safari 4.0.3 and Firefox 3.5.2.

    So it appears to be a problem with Firefox on Windows 7 but only with this new install of WP. I have no problems with 3 other WP installations using Win 7 and FF 3.5.2, one of which was a fresh install last week.

    Very strange.

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