Cannot configure or Arrange widgets.

Oddity? What oddity? The latest widgets.php (control) layout is sidebar1 on the left and available widgets across the bottom.

I’m sorry, that changed during my attempts to resolve the intial issue. Consequently, I thought it was unintended. Anyhow, I’m trying to now figure out why using the Now Reading plugin(v4.2) makes it impossible to configure any widgets.

Yeah, from the comments at that site:

I just did a fresh install of WP1.0.3, the widgets plugin, Now Reading 4.2, and the Now Reading Widget. Whenever I activate Now Reading 4.2, I am no longer able to configure any of my widgets.
I reverted to ver 4.1 to no avail. But going back to 4.0 has aleviated the problem.
Any ideas what has happened?

(am assuming he meant WP2.0.3)

If the Now Reading plugin is causing a problem, then I’d suggest not using it.

CG-Amazon does pretty much what that Now Reading plugin seems to be able to do, but allows for more than just “books”. You can define an arbitrary number of things in the CG-Amazon interface (by using the Amazon ASIN number or a search function) and then display any given set of those things by Amazon Category, your own categories, etc. It can display them randomly, in order, etc. You can control the size of the image, or not display an image, whatever. Very easy to use. Also uses your Amazon affiliate account ID so that the links generated will earn you some minor cash.

CG-Amazon is one of David Chait’s plugins, over at https://chait.net .

I use it to display a random book on the side of my blog. I basically defined a bunch of my favorite books in the “CGA” panel that it creates, then I used an ExecPHP widget with this code:
<?php show_amazon_items(1, 'rand', 'Medium', '', 'Book'); ?>

This displays one random item, with a medium size cover image, from Amazon’s “Book” category (and ignoring my own categories). Easy, no?

I think I might need to wake up everyone here.

I have just started having this same problem, I upgraded to 2.0.6 by Dreamhost One-Click install. I have been unable to configure widgets (they remain preconfigured from 2.0.5).

Am using Firefox 2 on Ubuntu and IE on Windows, both having the same problem. I reinstalled the Widgets folder with the latest one from Auttomatic today, including a test upload of Scripitlous in the wp-includes/js folder.

When I go to the Presentation>>Sidebar Widgets tab in the admin console. I see all my widegets properly positioned but the yellow text “Defaut Sidebar remains burried underneat the widgets (thought this might help).

Any clues?