Title: widget editor broken
Last modified: October 1, 2021

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# widget editor broken

 *  [kmort](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmort/)
 * (@kmort)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-editor-broken/)
 * I just accessed my dashboard to edit my widgets and yikes. Some new block functionality
   has been added to WordPress 5.8.1? And now when I click on Appearances -> Widgets
   everything explodes — my whole site crashed at one point. Flood of error messages
   on my dashboard. Most are along these lines:
 * <<The “text” block was affected by errors and may not function properly. Check
   the developer tools for more details.>>
 * Also a scattering of 500 internal server errors.
 * Is anyone else experiencing this?
 * Thoughts on the cause?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fwidget-editor-broken%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 * Last reply from: [kmort](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmort/)
 * Last activity: [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-editor-broken/)
 * Status: not resolved