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  • September 11, 2020 at 5:23 pm #501030
    beggers
    Participant

    I've been publishing two sites using Magazine Pro (the version that isn't totally block oriented). I went into VegasPublicity.com and was planning to add a new widget to the sidebar but when click on Widgets the entire widgets page is gone.

    I already have existing widgets in my sidebar and they are still working but the Widgets page is gone. It says my theme has no widget blocks.

    What happened and how can I fix this?

    Bryan

    https://www.vegaspublicity.com
    September 12, 2020 at 1:55 am #501032
    beggers
    Participant

    And just like magic, "POOF" and its fine again. I came back a few hours later and everything seems to be fine. I'm going to try adding a new widget to see what happens.

    September 14, 2020 at 3:20 am #501046
    shirleytorres
    Participant

    Wow! Seems like it was some kind of bug or sth.

    Front-end Developer
    Capstonewriting company

    September 14, 2020 at 4:37 am #501047
    beggers
    Participant

    Just as an update, my Widgets page reappeared for a couple of days and then suddenly vanished again. I tried disabling some plugins that I wasn't using and the page came back. I haven't had time to try to point the blame at a specific plugin, though. It still could be something else.

    September 20, 2020 at 2:24 am #501109
    beggers
    Participant

    And they are gone again. Has anyone heard of this problem or have an idea of how I can fix it?

    September 20, 2020 at 2:39 am #501110
    beggers
    Participant

    I noticed something else on my other site, MovieDebuts.com. That widgets page is only about half working. Widgets are no longer listed. I used to be able to drag and drop them into the sidebar. All that functionality is gone.

    September 20, 2020 at 3:19 am #501111
    beggers
    Participant

    I did some experimenting tonight and I was able to get my Widgets pages working again (on both my sites) by disabling the Gutenberg test plugin. Everything back to normal.

    The current production version of Gutenberg is still enabled so it's definitely an issue with the text version.

    Let me just ask this question. What's the easiest way to default to the Classic Editor?

    September 20, 2020 at 6:10 am #501113
    andytc
    Participant

    install the classic editor plugin , you can then choose between classic and Gutenberg

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/classic-editor/

    September 20, 2020 at 12:56 pm #501118
    AnitaC
    Keymaster

    They've always recommended that the Gutenberg test plugin be used just for that - a test. Not in a live environment. When you say the widgets go missing - are they missing in the Customizer, missing from Appearance > Widgets?

    Need help with customization or troubleshooting? Reach out to me.

    September 20, 2020 at 7:52 pm #501125
    beggers
    Participant

    Anita,

    I am testing and reporting the bugs. It's just that many plugins are being updated throughout the month and it took a while to pinpoint this problem to Gutenberg.

    To answer your question, the widget page vanished from all links to it - the Customizer and Appearance/Widgets.

    We need to have more people testing because a bug like that would be a disaster if the development team missed it and it got into production.

    Bryan

    September 21, 2020 at 12:21 pm #501126
    AnitaC
    Keymaster

    But you said it was related to the Gutenberg test plugin. StudioPress is testing things with Gutenberg. There's a team. Have you reported what you found to StudioPress or posted in the Github repo?

    Need help with customization or troubleshooting? Reach out to me.

    September 21, 2020 at 3:50 pm #501131
    beggers
    Participant

    Yes, I have reported the problem to Studiopress and the Gutenberg team.
    Thanks.

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