Glen Davies

The answer to this will depend on which version of Softaculous your hosting provider has installed and how it is configured.

If you contact the support service of the company that you pay to host your WordPress site they should be able to advise you on how to uninstall and reinstall WordPress correctly.

Your browser developer tools console may also provide some clues. Check for javascript exceptions in the console, and request errors in the network tab.

Widget blocks are the same as standard post/page blocks, so if you follow the documentation about creating Gutenberg blocks, eg. https://developer.www.ads-software.com/block-editor/handbook/tutorials/create-block/, and then install a plugin containing a block created this way it should be available in both the post/page and widgets editors.

Thank you! How would I restore the back up?

This will depend one how your WordPress site is hosted. The best thing to do would be to contact the support service of the company that you pay to host your website and they should be able to advise you on how to restore a backup of the site.

• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by Glen Davies.

This is a good suggestion. There is an open issue related to this at https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/32163, so hopefully there will be some progress on it in the near future.