graball

Adz, thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I’ve figured it out. I can’t believe we aren’t getting complaints from hundreds of users, because it’s a path error in the themes.php file in wp-admin which should hit anyone using 2.8.3 or 2.8.4.

When you click on Appearance in the admin sidebar and then click on Widgets it takes you to:
https://www.fontcraft.com/fontcraft/wp-admin/themes.php?page=widgets.php

Which doesn’t work and gives you the permissions error I mentioned.

Instead, if you manually change the URL to:
https://www.fontcraft.com/fontcraft/wp-admin/widgets.php

You can then access the widgets admin screen. So now I just need to go find that path and fix it in themes.php to make the fix automatic, or I can keep entering the URL manually.

Hopefully someone in WP-land is paying attention and will fix this bug in the next release.

Dave

Upgraded to 2.8.4, still no widgets.

Dave

3 days now. Problem persists. Don’t suppose 2.84 will fix it?

Dave

Is it normal for these questions to be ignored for days? Is there someplace else I can go to get help with this problem?

Dave

Ok, I did a lovely clean install and the problem remains. Help?

Dave

BTW, my next move is going to be to start over again with a clean install. Can’t think of anything else to try.

Dave

I suspect this is a problem which could easily be fixed because it doesn’t actually interfere with the functionality of the plugins, it just makes them kind of hard to activate and deactivate because it messes up the screen so badly. I currently have to scroll 5 screens to the right to see the activation link.

Just to clarify this a bit, it looks like the entire text of the plugin or theme’s main file is being read into the description field in the plugin or theme manager. Is there a way to fix this? Would sure like some help.

Dave

I have exactly the same problem, but I see he got no response, so I’m not sure what I should do.