Appearance Widget screen not responsive

Hi @mikepve,

Sorry to hear about this issue.

1. Please triple check that this is the plugin you use. I know there are a lot of similarly named plugins. This one is “Feature a Page Widget.”
2. On Appearance > Widgets, open your browser’s “console.” Here are instructions for doing that for lots of browsers.
3. You should see some red error text in that console. Copy and paste that into a new post on this thread.

Also, I would recommend you see if you can use the Customizer Widgets interface (Appearance > Customize > Widgets). It’s quite possible that that still works.

Ok, try this: View the page source of Appearance > Widgets. Search in the page for anything that says “Warning”, “Error” (“Fatal Error”), or “Notice” or some other error message. If you find something, I would expect it toward the bottom of the page, though it could be anywhere.

Also, if at all possible try running your site with Feature a Page Widget and a default WordPress theme like Twenty Seventeen. While the Feature a Page Widget plugin may trigger the error, the actual problem could potentially be in the theme.

Thanks for that error. That would explain what you’re seeing.

A few questions:

• Do you have a lot of Pages and posts on your site (hundreds or more?).
• Do you feature only Pages or do you also feature Posts or other custom post types?

Apologies, the code snippet had a bug in it when first published. That has been fixed 30 seconds after posting.

This widget is built in a way so that a site with a lot of pages and posts will encounter memory issues when loading the Appearance > Widgets screen. I’d love to resolve this at some point, but a fix is probably not coming any time soon.

Please try adding this snippet to your site and see if that resolves the problem:

add_filter( 'fpw_post_types', 'wp7256101_fpw_remove_posts' );
function wp7256101_fpw_remove_posts( $post_types ) {
	unset($post_types['post']);
	return $post_types;
}

That would either go in a functions.php file or, better, a custom /mu-plugins/ file.

That snippet removes “Posts” from the list of things you can feature and may solve your problem.

Let me know if that fixes it!

• This reply was modified 9 years, 2 months ago by mrwweb.

@mikepve were you ever able to test this out? I’d love to make sure this is working for you before releasing it to everyone.

Thanks in advance.