Genesis Featured Widget Amplified plugin won't stay when I add to my sidebar

[lisa.burgess]

Hello,

I am using the Decor theme and am trying to add the GFWA to  a widget on my home page.

I can drag it over and select the posts I want to display, but when I save it, nothing shows up on the home page.

If I go back to the admin panel and open the widget, the GFWA that I set up is gone!

Help - I've tried adding it to my primary sidebar as well and does the same thing. Nothing appears on the actual page and then the info I added to the widget area is gone when I go back to the admin panel!

I've used this plugin many times and never had this happen.  It just doesn't seem like it is "saving" what I'm doing.

thanks,

Lisa

 

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[cdils]

Hi Lisa,
Sounds like there may be a weird plugin conflict. Try disabling ALL plugins except for GFWA and see if that resolves the problem. If so, re-activate plugins one at a time and re-test to identify the culprit.

Carrie

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[lisa.burgess]

Hi Carrie,

I did deactivate all of the plugins and still this happens. It is so weird because when I drag the GFWA widget into my sidebar and give it the parameters I want such as to display posts, when I click "Save" it seems to "save" so quickly, almost like it really isn't saving.  So then if i go and preview the home page and then return to the dashboard and open my sidebar, the widget is gone.

I tried removing the GFWA plugin and reinstalling and still does the same thing.  So strange. Any other ideas?

Lisa

[cdils]

That is way weird! Are you running Genesis 1.9.2 and the latest version of WP?

Does a text widget (or any other widget) "save" in that spot?

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[lisa.burgess]

Yeah, I'm using latest  WP and genesis 1.9.2

And yes, other widgets work fine, just not GFWA.  I can add text widget, Genesis Featured page, etc.  But I need more options than just the regular featured page.

I have never come across this before in all of the genesis installs I've done.  ... and i always use GFWA.

Lisa

[cdils]

Hmm, I'm tapped out of ideas for that one. Lemme see if I can get The Big Gun to chime in. 🙂

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[nickthegeek]

Does this happen if all plugins are disabled including GFWA?

[lisa.burgess]

Hi Nick,

If I disable the GFWA plugin, I can still add other widgets to a sidebar and they will work fine -- for example, text widget or Genesis Featured Page.

But once I activate GFWA and try to add it to a sidebar, it will let me select the category of posts I want to display, when I click save, it "appears" to save, but never shows up on the page.  If I navigate off of the widgets page and come back and open my sidebar, the GFWA widget that I added disappears.  So it seems like it never really saves anything.

Something else weird is that when i drag the GFWA to my sidebar, .. if i try to select Pages ... the list of pages never shows up, which leads me to believe something just isnt working right at all.

I've never had a problem like this with this plugin .. .i usually uses it on all of the sites i create.

Lisa

[nickthegeek]

Could you try enabling Genesis as the active theme and only GFWA active and see if it works. What version of WordPress are you using?

[lisa.burgess]

Using latest version of WP and Genesis.

I just tried what you suggested and still does the same thing. I drag the widget to Primary Sidebar, gave it a title, selected posts and my category, clicked save and tried viewing homepage.  Nothing appears. Then if I navigate back to the Widgets page in admin panel, and open my Primary sidebar the GFWA is not even there.

Very strange.

[nickthegeek]

which browser are you using?

[lisa.burgess]

Chrome Version 25.0.1364.172

but i've also tried Firefox and have the same results.

[nickthegeek]

In chrome please make sure you have the developer tools active when you load the widgets page and check the console tab to see if there are any script conflicts.

[lisa.burgess]

nothing seems to be conflicting.?

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