Activating widgets make admin inaccessible

  • Yesterday a widget I installed and activated made my admin pages inaccessible — just a blank screen. Your helpful forum saved me! I successfully manually removed the widget from my server’s folder. Since then, it’s happened twice more — once with a pre-installed widget, and the third time with a widget I’d successfully installed a few days earlier, but got rid of it, then changed my mind.

    I’m a newbie on WordPress (used to be on Typepad for 8 years) and was wondering why it keeps happening? At first I thought it was a certain widget with a possible virus, but I’m not sure it makes sense for the second two. Can only install a certain amount of widgets? Would it have something to do with my template? It’s from ColorLabs for WordPress.

    Any help and advice for future widgeting would be very much appreciated. Thanks!

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  • Hi Kimblog,

    It has to do with plugins. There is no specific limit for plugins / widgets but from what you are saying, definitely you have some plugin which you have been using (and still not removed) which is conflicting with something else. To find out which one it is, I would recommend you the following:

    1. Disable all current plugins.
    2. Install a plugin which used to “crash” your admin portal.
    3. Start enabling the old plugins one by one.
    4. As soon as you get a blank screen or an error, it means that is the plugin which is conflicting. If you found it, try to find a replacement for it or contact the developer, maybe he or she knows of any existing conflicts.

    To confirm that the plugin is causing problems, you might want to try again the whole process specified above with another plugin which earlier on gave you problems.

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