Title: Text Plugins Not Working
Last modified: August 2, 2017

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# Text Plugins Not Working

 *  [scaudle010178](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scaudle010178/)
 * (@scaudle010178)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-plugins-not-working/)
 * My text widgets (any widget that allows you to enter text) doesn’t work anymore
   since 4.8 update. Is this because of the update? Does anyone know how to get 
   Plugins working again?
    Thanks!

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-plugins-not-working/#post-9373465)
 * Have you tried:
 * – deactivating **all** plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works,
   re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
 * – switching to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.
 * – [resetting the plugins folder](https://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F)
   by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause
   problems.
 * – re-uploading all files & folders – **except** the wp-content folder and wp-
   config.php & root .htaccess files – from a **fresh** download of WordPress. Make
   sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new
   ones.

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## Tags

 * [text widget](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/text-widget/)
 * [WordPress update](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wordpress-update/)

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 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-plugins-not-working/#post-9373465)
 * Status: not resolved

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