Becki Beckmann

do you have the web developer firefox extension installed? if not then do so … probably also firebug extension … then you can see the errors and probably trace it back to another plugin or core function

yes … i can confirm the same issues here on my multi site install. dashboard not working properly and if you debug with web developer firefox extension it will throw 2 jquery errors from the headspace2 plugin

unfortunately i’m not a big jquery guy so i think we have to be patient and wait for a patch from the headspace2 dev guys

btw … really thanks for such a great plugin … two thumbs up!

hi there,

i think i found the problem

abigailm … are you using the headspace2 plugin?

i had a deeper look with the web developer toolbar and found 2 jquery errors ->

Error: jQuery(“#desc_1309987823”).Counter is not a function
Error: jQuery(“#desc_1309987877”).Counter is not a function

and these errors are coming from headspace2 plugin

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and i even found a post on the headspace2 plugin page at wordpress where people have similar issues

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/dashboard-problem-after-32-upgrade?replies=3

i think that could be the culprit … seems we have to wait for an update from the headspace2 guys

also if i look in the dashboard i don’t see a headspace2 widget but if i look in the page source i see a headspace2 widget code.

i think that must be it!

so … i think we have to applaud ipstenu ?? it was … probably is … another plugin causing this issue

more when i find out more …

hi abigailm

you’re a star ??

So it is a big help to offer up suggestions for more debugging — but denying that there is a problem in the face of multiple reports doesn’t make sense.

after the last reply from user ipstenu, which i actually didn’t find very helpful, i just couldn’t be bothered to send another reply … sorry

i had the same impression of denying that there is a problem

so thanks abigailm, i couldn’t have used better words ??

aehm …. by the way … i know my name becki is a bit confusing as most people think i’m female … hahaaa ?? but the female becky is written with a ‘y’ and the male becki is written with an ‘i’, at least here in germany.

well … i know, very confusing, but i got this nickname assigned by some friends of mine in the last couple of years

here’s the actual proof being male -> https://beckspaced.com

thanks again abigailm ??

probably some other widgets are causing the problem?

you can disable all widgets if you like. there is this global $wp_meta_boxes which you could have a look at to see which widgets are loaded. there are 2 kinds of widgets ‘normal’ and ‘core’. you could loop with foreach through the normal and core and then remove them one by one to see if removing widgets helps to improve things.

have a look at the function below i used to figure out things ->

function removeDashboardWidgets() {
	// Globalize the metaboxes array, this holds all the widgets for wp-admin

	global $wp_meta_boxes;

	/*
	foreach (array_keys($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']) as $name){
		echo ("<p>");
		echo ($name);
		echo("</p>");

	}
	*/

	// Remove the quickpress widget

	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_quick_press']);

	// Remove the incomming links widget

	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_incoming_links']);
	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_recent_comments']);
	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['normal']['core']['dashboard_plugins']);
	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_primary']);
	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_secondary']);
	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_recent_drafts']);
} 

// Hoook into the 'wp_dashboard_setup' action to register our function

add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'removeDashboardWidgets' );

a var_dump($wp_meta_boxes) will probably also give you the info you need

best of luck and please post your report here

yep … great … we got another one ?? who can confirm that it has nothing to do with plugins or the different browsers

abigailm … just put that piece of code into your functions.php in the theme. if there isn’t a functions.php file there yet then just create one and put that code in to remove the ‘quickpress’ widget and see if this helps. it did help on my sites and the errors were gone

// Create the function to use in the action hook

function removeDashboardWidgets() {
	global $wp_meta_boxes;
	// Remove the quickpress widget
	unset($wp_meta_boxes['dashboard']['side']['core']['dashboard_quick_press']);

} 

// Hoook into the 'wp_dashboard_setup' action to register our function

add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'removeDashboardWidgets' );

please let me know if this improves things – thanks

hi otto,

thanks for the reply

where can i find those rewrite rules in the database? in the ‘options’ table?

so … just did what you told me. enabled the twenty eleven theme for the network. then enabled it on one mutlisite domain and the problem is still there!!

if i click on the toggle thingy in the dashboard upper right corner ‘screen option’ or ‘help’ or on ‘howdy, username’ nothing is happening! the menus don’t collapse!

so it is the same thing with theme twenty eleven.

also i’m not sure how you could say that i clearly have made a few changes??

i haven’t! just the standard twenty ten theme with ONE function in the functions.php file to remove this ‘quickpres’ widget as the problems go away after i did that

hope this helps you guys to re-produce the issue

thanks & fun
becki

well … actually i didn’t do any changes at all! not one single bit!

the sites use the default twenty ten theme … but i will give twenty eleven a try and will report back ??

thanks

hi andrea,

thanks for your reply …

don’t think that a plugin is flushing my rewrite rules in the htaccess file, because then all other sites would be affected by this, which actually isn’t the case

but i think a WP upgrade somehow might flush the settings for that multi site … or a plugin could cause that … in the database table ‘options’

sadly i don’t have much time to dig deeper into that. will keep on updating the permalink structure after every upgrade ..

but thought perhaps you guys would know about a fix for this issue

anyway … thanks a lot
becki

hey duck__boy ??

you’re the man! custom widgets saved my day ??

did create my custom widget class extending from WP_Widget and saved the code in the themes function.php file

then registered my custom widget ->
register_widget(‘myCustomWidget’);

and voila … in the admin panel the widget shows up and i can drag & drop it into the sidebar …

no more modifying of WP core files … problem solved ??

thanks again for pointing me towards the right direction!

greetz
becki

yep …thanks a lot for your idea ??

the register_sidebar function would take care of the ->

before_widget & after_widget
before_title & after_title

great!

but this would still lack 2 things I’m trying to achieve …

first … completely remove the $title!
and add a CSS class ‘vlist’ to the UL container!

how can this be done without modifying the core file??

any more input, ideas & hints are more than welcome ??

greetings
becki

hello duck__boy,

thanks for your reply … i will copy the original and modified code below so you can have a look what i’m trying to achive ->

original code first ->

function widget( $args, $instance ) {
		extract( $args );

		$title = apply_filters('widget_title', empty( $instance['title'] ) ? __( 'Pages' ) : $instance['title'], $instance, $this->id_base);
		$sortby = empty( $instance['sortby'] ) ? 'menu_order' : $instance['sortby'];
		$exclude = empty( $instance['exclude'] ) ? '' : $instance['exclude'];

		if ( $sortby == 'menu_order' )
			$sortby = 'menu_order, post_title';

		$out = wp_list_pages( apply_filters('widget_pages_args', array('title_li' => '', 'echo' => 0, 'sort_column' => $sortby, 'exclude' => $exclude) ) );

		if ( !empty( $out ) ) {
			echo $before_widget;
			if ( $title)
				echo $before_title . $title . $after_title;
		?>
		<ul>
			<?php echo $out; ?>
		</ul>
		<?php
			echo $after_widget;
		}
	}

modified function follows ->

function widget( $args, $instance ) {
		extract( $args );

		$title = apply_filters('widget_title', empty( $instance['title'] ) ? __( 'Pages' ) : $instance['title'], $instance, $this->id_base);
		$sortby = empty( $instance['sortby'] ) ? 'menu_order' : $instance['sortby'];
		$exclude = empty( $instance['exclude'] ) ? '' : $instance['exclude'];

		if ( $sortby == 'menu_order' )
			$sortby = 'menu_order, post_title';

		$out = wp_list_pages( apply_filters('widget_pages_args', array('title_li' => '', 'echo' => 0, 'sort_column' => $sortby, 'exclude' => $exclude) ) );

		if ( !empty( $out ) ) {
			// echo $before_widget; core hack
			if ( $title)
				// echo $before_title . $title . $after_title; core hack
		?>
		<ul class="vlist">
			<?php echo $out; ?>
		</ul>
		<?php
			// echo $after_widget; core hack
		}
	}

so … what am i modifying?

first i need to remove the $before & $after_widget
then i need to remove the $title from the widget …
last … i need to add a CSS class named ‘vlist’ to the
‘ul’ container
this is a request from my customer … he doesn’t want to have the widget title ‘pages’

what’s the best way to achieve this without modifying the core files?

thanks & fun
becki

hello 2ells,

thanks for your reply and pointing me in the right direction.
did also browse through the forum here and someone else was asking a similar question ->

WordPress 3.0.5 changelog

thanks & all the best

greetings
becki

hello 2ells,

thanks a lot for your reply and pointing me to the right direction.
just had a look through some other posts in this forum and someone asked a similar question ->

so … my question has been answered ?? thanks for your help!

greetings
becki