Title: Widget error message
Last modified: August 19, 2016

---

# Widget error message

 *  [mattf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattf/)
 * (@mattf)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-error-message/)
 * I get this error message warning: invalid arguement on directory/wp-admin/widgets.
   php on line 22. I know the themes are widget ready because the line of code is
   in the side bar. I loaded this version of wordpress myself. Did I forget to load
   a file?

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)

 *  [waffles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/waffles/)
 * (@waffles)
 * [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-error-message/#post-669902)
 * Do you have the widgets.php file in both wp-admin and wp-includes? I was missing
   the one in includes and had that same error message. Uploaded it there and everything
   was fine again.

Viewing 1 replies (of 1 total)

The topic ‘Widget error message’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

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

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [waffles](https://wordpress.org/support/users/waffles/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-error-message/#post-669902)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics