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  • December 5, 2017 at 9:55 am #884956
    laptophobo

    I’ve seen an earlier post on this issue here (https://kriesi.at/support/topic/cannot-edit-text-widget/) but it didn’t have a resolution to it.
    I can drag a new Text widget into a sidebar, but there is no content area. If I use an “inactive text widget”, which already has content in it, I can modify it and use that. But I still cannot use a fresh Text widget.

    I had activated Debug and am not showing any errors. I turned off all the plugins and that didn’t fix the problem either.

    Thanks much,

    • This topic was modified 6 years, 11 months ago by laptophobo.
    December 6, 2017 at 7:28 am #885395
    Rikard

    Hey laptophobo,

    Thanks for the login details, though I can see the content of you text widgets in the Display Everywhere area. Is that where you’re having problems? Maybe you could post a screenshot of the issue or use the Custom HTML widget instead? Did you try deactivating all plugins to see if one of them is causing a conflict?

    Best regards,
    Rikard

    December 6, 2017 at 9:27 am #885445
    laptophobo

    The existing text widget (as you saw in Display Everywhere) does display content. It’s when you drag and drop in a new instance of the text widget into a sidebar. In this instance, the Text widget within the Footer – column3 sidebar. Please see the screenshot (linked from Private).

    December 7, 2017 at 4:36 am #885894
    Rikard

    Hi,

    Thanks for the feedback. You have open html markup in the widget above which might be causing that:

    <a target="_blank" href="http://grasphelp.org">

    You need to close the markup like so:

    <a target="_blank" href="http://grasphelp.org">Link</a>

    Best regards,
    Rikard

    December 7, 2017 at 4:55 am #885901
    laptophobo

    Thanks for catching that. But, after fixing it, it still does not change the problem. I did check all of the other Text widgets for any broken HTML, but they appear to be fine.

    December 7, 2017 at 10:42 am #886009
    laptophobo

    I found the problem. I had added in a script into functions.php (child theme) which broke the Text widget. The script was:
    add_filter( 'clean_url', 'defer_parsing_of_js', 11, 1 );

    There’s a thread on this at: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-widget-not-working-after-wp-4-8-update

    December 8, 2017 at 5:17 am #886348
    Rikard

    Hi,

    Great, glad you found the problem. Please let us know if you should need any further help on the topic.

    Best regards,
    Rikard

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