[Plugin: WYSIWYG Text Widget] doesn’t work in 2.71

Same here. looks like it should be opening via a lightbox or modal window of some sort, instead it’s a full request to a new page.

i tried it in wordpress 2.7.1

it worked for me after making some changes to the wysiwyg-text-widget.php

// orig function at line ~ 115
function widget_wys_text_init()
{
wp_enqueue_script(‘editor’);
wp_enqueue_script(‘editor_functions’);
wp_enqueue_script(‘quicktags’);
}

edited//
function widget_wys_text_init()
{
wp_admin_css( ‘thickbox’ );
add_thickbox();
wp_enqueue_script(‘editor’);
wp_enqueue_script(‘editor_functions’);
wp_enqueue_script(‘quicktags’);
wp_enqueue_script(‘media-upload’);
}

I hope it will work for you guys also

It worked for me.
Nice tip !
Did you send this to the plugin author ?

boy, I tried this with no luck – I’m on FF3/Mac – maybe that’s the problem?

@abelcreative: as it says on the author’s plugin page

Known issues

• The plugin doesn’t work (on the admin end) in Google Chrome
• The widget is a bit odd in Firefox. There’s sometimes an intermediate page that shows when you edit a widget, and you might have to click the “Visual” link to see the editor buttons. I’d like to fix these things but don’t have time at the moment (new baby = no time!).

Btw, I tried it in FF3, Safari and IE7 (all winvista) but it doesn’t work for me. Also tried the edit mentioned in a few posts back, but that didn’t solve it either..
A shame, because this is exactly what my client wants..

Can someone make this work better?

@technopreneur – I used your fix today, and the plugin is now working great in FF 3 on Mac.

This plugin doesnt work correcty for me – it only adds a widget to the first sidebar i am fairly new at building themes and i note that int widget php it looks for register_sidebar_widget my functions.php uses register_sidebar – not sure what the difference is between the two-

Karen