WP 5.8 Breaks Widgets | ww.wp.xz.cn

Andrew1977
(@andrew1977)

4 years, 4 months ago
Good Morning,

Since the WordPress 5.8 update WordPress seems to break this plugin, as well as the widget section within the WordPress dashboard.

After reading online we have tired some of the suggestions, the first being to install the Classics Widgets plugin, which gets the widgets section working again, the only thing being that everytime we click on a page with the widgets it links us back to the home screen everytime.

Have also tried downgrading to WordPress 5.7.3, as well as switching to the default WordPress theme, and the problem still persists.

If you have any ideas or suggestions of what else could be causing the issue, that would be great!

Kind Regards,

Andy
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Plugin Author anmari
(@anmari)

4 years, 4 months ago

Sorry, I don’t have anything more to add than what is already in the pinned post https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/wp5-8-use-classic-widgets-plugin-with-this-plugin/.

A quick retest works fine for me using the widget names without classic widgets, and with it, using id’s. Obviously the links in whatever widget you are using will differ. Maybe the plugin generating the links does not expect to be used as a ‘shortcode’ ? Do the links work in various other sidebars?

Try refreshing permalinks?

You could reach out to the widget authors and ask them to provide their widgets as ‘blocks’

You could try usual debugging – switch to std wp theme, see if it is theme messing with links? https://webdesign.anmari.com/2932/debugging-a-possible-clash-between-plugins-andor-a-theme/

Thread Starter Andrew1977
(@andrew1977)

4 years, 4 months ago

Hi @anmari

Many thanks for your reply.

We are still further investigating this.

Hopefully we will get this resolved.

Thanks again.

Kind Regards,

Andy

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