Title: Plugin breaking widgets.php (Appearance > Widgets) page Last modified: May 31, 2023 --- # Plugin breaking widgets.php (Appearance > Widgets) page * Resolved [diegora](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diegora/) * (@diegora) * [3 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-widgets-php-appearance-widgets-page/) * I’ve used this plugin for many years, but now I noticed that it is breaking my Appearance > Widgets page. * When I click “Appearace > Widgets” (widgets.php), it returns a WordPress 404 not found page. * I’ve disabled all the plugins, only Widgets Bundle is activated, and Widgets. php is still returning 404. When I disable ONLY widgets.php, it works as normal. * I only noticed this now cause I urgently needed to open Appearance > Widgets to edit a widget and it’s broken, So I cannot do it cause If I disable this plugin I can open Widgets.php but that widget is not there cause it’s a Siteorigin widget. * Please help. How can I troubleshoot this further? * EVERYTHING is updated to latest version. Theme is Siteorigin North. Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * Plugin Support [Andrew Misplon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/misplon/) * (@misplon) * [3 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-widgets-php-appearance-widgets-page/#post-16783532) * Hi, thanks for reaching out. * Is there anything useful in red text in the console when the error occurs? [https://wordpress.org/support/article/using-your-browser-to-diagnose-javascript-errors/#step-3-diagnosis](https://wordpress.org/support/article/using-your-browser-to-diagnose-javascript-errors/#step-3-diagnosis). * Thread Starter [diegora](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diegora/) * (@diegora) * [3 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-widgets-php-appearance-widgets-page/#post-16783630) * _Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)_ * Just this. * PS: Yes, widgets.php exists in /wp-content/ * Plugin Support [Andrew Misplon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/misplon/) * (@misplon) * [3 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-widgets-php-appearance-widgets-page/#post-16783650) * Thanks. It’s possible that the page is being blocked by a security module such as ModSecurity. If possible, try reaching out to your hosts, provide the full admin URL being blocked and ask if they can check their logs to see if the page is being blocked. That might be a place to start the investigation. * [mcxg46](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcxg46/) * (@mcxg46) * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-widgets-php-appearance-widgets-page/#post-16875046) * I have been getting the same issue. Rolling back to v 1.50.1 seems to solve it. * Plugin Support [Andrew Misplon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/misplon/) * (@misplon) * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-widgets-php-appearance-widgets-page/#post-16875145) * Hi, thanks for getting in touch. I’ve replied at the below link: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/1-50-1-not-compatible-with-old-widgets-screen/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/1-50-1-not-compatible-with-old-widgets-screen/). Cheers. * Thread Starter [diegora](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diegora/) * (@diegora) * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-widgets-php-appearance-widgets-page/#post-16875199) * In my case it was a ModSecurity problem. Contacted the hosting company and they diagnosed and fixed it. * Plugin Support [Andrew Misplon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/misplon/) * (@misplon) * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-widgets-php-appearance-widgets-page/#post-16875206) * Thanks, diegora. Really appreciate your feedback. * Thread Starter [diegora](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diegora/) * (@diegora) * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-widgets-php-appearance-widgets-page/#post-16875243) * I should have phrased it better tbh. It wasn’t a ModSecurity “problem”, ModSecurity was blocking it for security reasons. Since it doesn’t seem like it’s happening only to me, that should probably be looked into, a widget shouldn’t be auto-blocked by ModSecurity. Thanks. * Plugin Support [Andrew Misplon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/misplon/) * (@misplon) * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-widgets-php-appearance-widgets-page/#post-16875334) * Thanks for the additional feedback. I’ve asked Alex from SiteOrigin to reply. He’ll pass on what we know about the issue and the steps taken to date. * Plugin Contributor [alexgso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexgso/) * (@alexgso) * [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-widgets-php-appearance-widgets-page/#post-16880044) * Hi, * Mod_Security is an application firewall. Data is passed through the firewall and the firewall does some checks on everything passed through using a set of rules and it checks for any potential issues. These rules can be quite specific but some of them can be quite general and that’s where false positives can occur. A false positive is something being flagged incorrectly due to an issue with the rule, not the flagged data. * These rules aren’t perfect and mistakes happen. For example, a few years ago we had some reports of pages being blocked for a few people. The cause? The users had added emojis to the page and a rule was incorrectly flagging them. We were able to resolve that issue by getting the rule corrected. * Please reach out to your hosting provider asking them for more information about the block. This will allow us to investigate this issue further. Most hosting providers use an off the shelf solution for rules (which is ideal for a number of reasons) so they should hopefully be able to provide us with a rule id. * Kind regards, Alex Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) The topic ‘Plugin breaking widgets.php (Appearance > Widgets) page’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/so-widgets-bundle/assets/icon.svg?rev=2556862) * [SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle](https://wordpress.org/plugins/so-widgets-bundle/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/so-widgets-bundle/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/so-widgets-bundle/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/so-widgets-bundle/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/so-widgets-bundle/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/so-widgets-bundle/reviews/) ## Tags * [widgets](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/widgets/) * 10 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [alexgso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexgso/) * Last activity: [2 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaking-widgets-php-appearance-widgets-page/#post-16880044) * Status: resolved