Can’t save new edits in widget

  • Resolved nikkoboy

    (@nikkoboy)


    7 years, 5 months ago

    Hi,

    Until Friday 23rd June 2017, I was using the Display Widget plugin on my site and after the recent WordPress update it stopped working properly.

    I then found out about Display Widgets SEO Plus plugin and installed it on my site. However now, I am not able to save any of my changes when I edit the content of my widgets. Neither the text widget nor the WordPress widgets. Ex: I change some of the text in the widget, save it, and then the old content reappears.

    I would like to revert to Display widget, but I deleted it and the plugin does not exist anymore. Great…

    Can you please help?

    Thank you.

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  • Thread Starter nikkoboy

    (@nikkoboy)

    Ok, I discovered that this bug was caused (widget doesn’t save) by an Hexadecimal HTML Entity. I use an emoji in some of my widgets (lock icon) to indicate locked content. Once the code of the Hexadecimal HTML Entity inserted in the widget, it changes into the icon, and renders the widget uneditable. To edit it, I simply had to delete the icon, modify the content of the widget, reinsert the Hexadecimal HTML code, and save. It worked.

    Plugin Author David Cameron Law

    (@seo-dave)

    Before I read your second post I would have responded with if the issue remains after deactivating Display Widgets SEO Plus I can’t see how the plugin would cause the not saving widgets issue and would have given the same advice I gave to @madhumurthy (https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/display-widget-does-not-save/#post-8868319) about troubleshooting other plugin/theme issues.

    I’m not familiar with locked widgets, is that a plugin/theme feature? If it is a theme/plugin feature sounds like it’s working as it should, stops you changing** widgets you’ve marked as locked.

    ** The Display Widgets options are saved along with the other widget options, so if you are running a theme/plugin feature to stop widgets from being changed the display widgets options wouldn’t save: so if I’ve understood things correctly it isn’t a bug, it’s a feature working as expected.

    Locking widgets sounds like a useful feature, will have to look into that.

    David

    Yes unfortunately there was a huge bug with one of the widgets we activated. Basically we had a few requests off certain people asking if they could show certain widgets to certain countries.

    In the last update it was checking the ip of EVERY VISITOR with no option to turn off the feature. Now this is fixed and it is deactivated by default, and can be activated by a click of a button ??

    Plus, no more HUGE file downloaded to your server. That has been taken care of as well.

    Hope you like it ?? Sorry for any inconvenience, and thank you for your continued support and for sticking with me.

    In terms of updating we will be updating it way more often then the previous owner, before we came along the last time it was updated was 2 years ago. Yes we had a minor kink but its all resolved now.

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/display-widgets/

    Thread Starter nikkoboy

    (@nikkoboy)

    Hi @displaywidget, thanks for being transparent about this issue. I’ll update your plugin and give it a try.

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