Problems since WP 5.8 upgrade

  • Resolved aezzell2020

    (@aezzell2020)


    4 years, 10 months ago

    It may simply be coincidence, but I upgraded to WP 5.8 recently (running PHP 7.4.14 on a Linux server), and I started having problems with my Content Aware sidebars, which had previously been working just fine.

    I first noticed that after I had added an additional page to display one of the sidebars that was also assigned to some other pages, the change didn’t stick. It was there, and then I edited the page content (not the template or anything else, just the content), and the sidebar was no longer there.

    I eventually tried using OR to assign a sidebar to multiple pages, and that seemed to be working, but then today I had a sidebar set up for a group of 5 pages (a 2nd-level page and 4 child pages) – the sidebar was showing a local navigation menu. Then I decided to change the menu label for the 2nd-level page – but I didn’t change the actual page name or the slug, just how it was listed in the menu – and the sidebar disappeared from that page but was still visible on the child pages.

    So I’m wondering if perhaps my site is somehow possessed, or if anyone else has noticed any problems with sidebars assigned to multiple pages since upgrading to WP 5.8.

    Thanks!

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  • Plugin Author Joachim Jensen

    (@intoxstudio)

    4 years, 10 months ago

    Thank you for reporting this.

    CAS has been tested and is compatible with both the new Widgets screen (Block Widgets) and the old Widgets screen.

    If you are having trouble with widgets after upgrading to WP5.8, it is likely that another plugin is causing an incompatibility, and I recommend installing this plugin:
    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/classic-widgets/

    Let me know if this resolves the issue.

    Thread Starter aezzell2020

    (@aezzell2020)

    4 years, 10 months ago

    It turned out that the problem with CAS was not the only widget-related problem I was having with WP 5.8, so I added this to my functions.php file in my child theme, which accomplished the same thing as that plugin:

    add_filter( ‘use_widgets_block_editor’, ‘__return_false’ );

    Thanks for the suggestion, though. I really love the flexibility that your sidebars provide.

    Thread Starter aezzell2020

    (@aezzell2020)

    4 years, 10 months ago

    (Forgot to mark resolved)

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