Widgets don’t drag and drop as advertised

More weirdness: it works fine with Firefox 3.5.2 on Windows XP.

And after intalling the Simple Press Forum plugin, it now works with Windows 7 and Firefox 3.5.2.

Go figure.

Widgets won’t drag and
screen options and Help don’t work on any page.
I thought I was learning about IM but listening to you guys it still sounds like gobel do gook to me so I can only hope wp fixes the glitch.
What do you think?
Think they will fix it… SOOOOOOOOOOON??

WOW I just looked at the dates on the posts. This problem started 2 MONTHS AGO???? I’ve only had the problem for a half an hour and thought everyone else did too. So much for them fixing it SOOOOOOOOOON. What can I do does anybody have a definitive answer that they can explain in very simple English?

drruss, the only thing I can suggest is add a few plugins from your Dashboard:
https://[yourdomainnamegoeshere]/wp-admin/plugin-install.php

For some reason, as soon as I did that, all the javascript started working. For me, this problem was only happening Firefox 3.5.2 in Windows 7.

griffinjay
Thanks for that but I noticed above you said you installed Simple Press Forum plugin. I didn’t see the Simple Press Forum plugin anywhere. So I read another post above where she said she closed her browser and opened it again and it worked. I’ve already done that a hundred times but tried it once more just to see and damn the widgets now drag and drop just fine.

Hey like you say: go figure.

It’s as though someone went in there in the middle of the night, some good fairy, and fixed the problem for me.

I had the same issue on one of my sites, but was able to fix it once I isolated the cause.

The widgets stopped being draggable.

I disabled my plugins and re-enabled them one-by-one and found that the WP Events Calendar plugin was the culprit.

Dragging widgets works fine now without that plugin enabled.

I was having the same problem. I’m pretty sure the plugins were to blame. I added Event Calendar and then the widgets are screwed up. I remove it (a day later, after realizing the problem) and everything is back to normal.

Figure out what you’ve installed, work your way backwards and deactivate them. I’m using Atahualpa, for the record.

I’m having this same issue with Widgets and other JS weirdness. It started with upgrading my 2.8.4 site. Bashed at that for a few days and gave up. I exported the data and installed a fresh copy of WP in a new database. Even this virgin site, only plugin active is Akismet, I cannot move or edit Widgets. Tried both stock themes. Even with Akisment disabled so absolutely no plugins, I cannot do anything to widgets.

On my post page all JS related functionality seems to be gone as well.

I’ve tried editing on Mac (FF and Safari) and on Windows, no difference.

So unlike many of the previous comments, this has nothing to do with incompatible plugins or themes. Anyone? This was all fine until 2.8.4.

OK, since no one has any ideas what is causing this, I’ve dug a bit more. I went on a virgin WP website that my ISP set up on a new server, and compared the source of the widget.php page on that site with my site. On this new site on the new server, widgets.php works fine. On my, I cannot drag or edit widgets. This is what I found. On line 12 of the site that works I found this:

var userSettings = {‘url’:’/~username/wordpress/’,’uid’:’1′,’time’:’1253238726′};

This is the same line of code in my site:

var userSettings = {‘url’:’/’,’uid’:’1′,’time’:’1253239183′};

So on the working site, the URL includes the full path to his WP installation, including the WP directory itself. On mine, it only has the forward slash to my own root directory.

I’ve dug around in the database using phpMyAdmin and can’t find anything that looks like it’s related to this, nor I figure out where in the php code this is determined.

It’s been almost a week since I crippled my site with the 2.8.4 update and no one seems to have any idea what is causing this same behavior on a freshly installed site. Any help is appreciated.

I had the same problem and it was due to the plugin “WP Events Calendar”. Removed it and everything is okay.

Like fishingfool, my inability to drag was fixed by deactivating “WP Events Calendar”.

WP Events Calendar was screwing it up for me too…

WordPress 2.8.5 widget drag drop not working.

I was facing this problem last night and after goggling i found that it has some issue with the plug ins..

I go to my plug ins panel and deactive one by one and i found that featured content gallery plug in has the problem.

I did all the widget work and reactive the plug in all fine.

But this should be fix it out.

I recently visited my site and found that it had been hit by the Trojan horse that was going around, after sorting out what it had done to my site, i found that the right column no longer displayed my widgets – which house some very important information.

I have tried finding a solution to this problem but it seems that no one using the TarouMag theme is experiencing it. can anyone take a look at the site and see whats up. removethenets.com

I have deactivated the widgets put them back in – nothing happens
I have deactivated the plugins and reactivated them – nothing happens

Do i need to upgrade WP? – i’m worried that this may cause more problems.

I really need assistance here.

Thanks