Cannot access widgets – permissions error after upgrade to 2.8.3

  • I just upgraded from 2.6 to 2.8.3. Everything is working fine, except that I cannot access the widgets page. It tells me:

    “You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”

    And the URL it is trying to access is:

    “https://www.fontcraft.com/fontcraft/wp-admin/themes.php?page=widgets.php”

    I’ve checked the permissions on those files on the server, turned off all my plugins and even tried a different theme and nothing works. I’ve also looked at the files in the database with phpmyadmin and the problem others have mentioned about an incorrect prefix does not seem to apply.

    No access to widgets is not a good thing since a lot of the structure of my site is based on the widgets and they need to be updated periodically.

    Can anyone help?

    Dave

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  • Thread Starter graball

    (@graball)

    BTW, my next move is going to be to start over again with a clean install. Can’t think of anything else to try.

    Dave

    Thread Starter graball

    (@graball)

    Ok, I did a lovely clean install and the problem remains. Help?

    Dave

    Thread Starter graball

    (@graball)

    Is it normal for these questions to be ignored for days? Is there someplace else I can go to get help with this problem?

    Dave

    Thread Starter graball

    (@graball)

    3 days now. Problem persists. Don’t suppose 2.84 will fix it?

    Dave

    Thread Starter graball

    (@graball)

    Upgraded to 2.8.4, still no widgets.

    Dave

    Hi,
    I’m not entirely certain about this, but I had a somewhat similar issue with accessing a theme options pages.

    The widget is in the widgets.php file, right? Open it up and look for a header redirect. I don’t recall the code by memory, but it’ll be something like header('location:http:/:....') It’ll probably end in themes.php. Change that to widgets.php and hopefully it will start working.

    Hope that helps.

    Thread Starter graball

    (@graball)

    Adz, thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I’ve figured it out. I can’t believe we aren’t getting complaints from hundreds of users, because it’s a path error in the themes.php file in wp-admin which should hit anyone using 2.8.3 or 2.8.4.

    When you click on Appearance in the admin sidebar and then click on Widgets it takes you to:
    https://www.fontcraft.com/fontcraft/wp-admin/themes.php?page=widgets.php

    Which doesn’t work and gives you the permissions error I mentioned.

    Instead, if you manually change the URL to:
    https://www.fontcraft.com/fontcraft/wp-admin/widgets.php

    You can then access the widgets admin screen. So now I just need to go find that path and fix it in themes.php to make the fix automatic, or I can keep entering the URL manually.

    Hopefully someone in WP-land is paying attention and will fix this bug in the next release.

    Dave

    I am having a similar issue. Just created a clean install on 2.84 and I get :

    Call to undefined function wp_list_widgets() in /home/****/public_html/test/wp-admin/widgets.php on line 343

    Now, I tried finding the call function in wp-admin/themes.php that you’re talking about and changing it, but I can’t for the life of me find that line. I can’t seem to find anything with ‘widgets’ in it in themes.php. Do you know what line it is on?

    I don’t have 343 lines in the themes.php file so perhaps my issue is different.

    Has anyone found where to fix this problem yet? I can’t finf the line in themes.php either. But I have the same problem, on my own blog as well as my clients.

    I’m having the same issue on my 2.8.4 blogs.

    Can’t edit widgets – in fact none of the ajax (jquery?) works on the page at all.

    No drag and drop
    No expanding menus
    No Screen Options – it won’t fold down
    No New Post dropdown

    regards,

    Matt

    I can access the widgets just fine if I manually edit the link from
    https://Blog.com/wp-admin/themes.php?page=widgets.php
    to https://Blog.com/wp-admin/widgets.php

    But that’s no good for my clients.
    Rayvin

    The widget page can be access from the dashboard but not from the sidebar menu.
    Has any one found any solution for the issue?

    I have the right uri but still can’t move my widgets. Can’t make a long post either.

    Gulp.

    I got the same issue.. then i checked it from Chrome and it works well. :).. have a look guys.. I use ff 3.013 and chrome.. chrome is good.
    Murad..

    https://www.maldivestravelservices.com

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