gkbenji

Thanks Bernd, but that is just one example of the many styles I have that aren’t working. I don’t want to have to go put !important in front of every one.

A workaround I can use for now might be to rename the CSS file in the plugin directory (although I’m leaving it for now so the CGE developers can take a look). But the styles in my theme should take precedence over those in the plugin directory, right? CGE no longer supports the custom CSS file that gets parsed last.

Hmmm… following up on that, I checked the page source header, and it does look like plugin style sheets get loaded AFTER the theme CSS. Bleh. That may be why many plugins that have their own CSS but may need lots of styling allow a custom CSS file to be specified.

So, perhaps change this to a request to bring back the custom CSS file.

I the meantime, I will look for another workaround (I already have a plugin that will allow you to add a custom class to a widget, that may be the best option).

Well, it already being 1am and all I decided to make a second current database backup and give it a shot restoring the one I made right before the update. That did the trick! At least I was smart enough to make sure the plugins were all enabled before I backed things up. Whew.

I guess I’ll know better for next time. Why the easy update failed, now… that’s a different question.

Sorry. In any case, it was a plugin I had missed that was causing the problem (Widget Logic Visual, FWIW).

I’ll second this problem… I upgraded to WP 3.5 about 3 weeks ago, but hadn’t tried to edit any widgets until now. I’m using a child theme of TwentyEleven.

Clicking on a sidebar down-arrow does not open it; trying to drag a widget just highlights text. Same behavior on two different systems using two different browswers (Chrome & Firefox) and as different WP users.

Like goodlifeguide notes, the site itself appears fine. I can create/edit posts and pages. I just can’t modify any widgets. FWIW the site is Rivendell School.

Thanks for the help.

Yes, that’s the plugin. The default WP editor does not have the issue–search for a page and it shows only the pages on the sub-site. TinyMCE did not cause the issue either, although I think it uses the default editor’s link function.

Honestly, the MTC CKEditor Link Page function is pretty kludgy and I can live without it. I’m just mystified why it doesn’t work on a multisite installation.

My problem is actually the opposite… when I’m on a “sub” site, it’s actually listing the “main” site pages!
Hmm… I do use the switch_to_blog(1) trick in my theme template header header.php, like so:

<?php switch_to_blog(1); ?>
				<?php wp_nav_menu( array( 'theme_location' => 'primary' ) ); ?>
				<?php restore_current_blog(); ?>

The page being generated in the plugin doesn’t use the templates at all, but could there be some strange interaction?

I can type after the refresh, but when I save the widget, the text disappears and doesn’t show up on my page. Great idea, I’d love to see it working (WP 3.4, WYSIWYG Widgets 1.2).

A menu plugin sounds like a good idea. So if you need to change the “master” menu, you just update the plugin and all the sites now have the new master menu?

Okay, one more newbie question to make sure I understand how it all works.

Mods to the theme’s actual code go to all sites that use that theme. But any options changed or content added–including menus, layout choices, colors selected through the theme interface–would not be propagated. Correct?

So if I wanted all the sites to have common colors, menus etc. I’d have to hard-code them in the theme PHP and CSS files (or go to each site individually and make them match).

Am I understanding it correctly?

If so, is there a way (some Multisite plugin?) to keep such changes synced up easily?

Thanks. I realized they end up being separate sites, and in fact if a classroom “site” is customized a bit that’s fine. Most will likely not go beyond throwing up a new header image or changing some colors (and I can work with ones who know enough to do more).

That actually raises an administration question, though. My understanding is that the Network admin can set/update the themes for the sites. But if I want to make a customization to a site (e.g. add a new post type or page template), is there any way to push that easily to all the sites? Or would I have to go to all [i]n[/i] sites (in this case, between 5 and 14) and make that customization [i]n[/i] times?