Adding a Widget

  • ymadhuri · Member ·

    Hi,

    I am trying to add widgets to my blog – http://ymadhuri.wordpress.com. Trouble is, although when i click on widgets from my dasbboard listing and the widget list appears, i am unable to drag the individual widget to the sidebar. Right now, I’m trying to add email subscription through text widget and am unable to. Need help on this one.

    ymadhuri

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • thesacredpath · Member ·

    What browser are you using and what version?

    Try logging out of wordpress, clear your browser cache and cookies, restart your browser and then try again.

  • delayed2sleep · Member ·

    Doesn’t it depend, too, on the theme you’ve chosen? My blog, http://delayed2sleep.wordpress.com , has 3 widgets, and it’s unwilling to add any more.

  • raincoaster · Member ·

    It depends only to the extent that some themes are not widget-enabled. The OP’s theme allows them. Yours should as well. Try tsp’s suggestions.

  • panmetal · Member ·

    “It depends only to the extent that some themes are not widget-enabled.”

    I think so…

  • ymadhuri · Member ·

    Great thank you. I was using chrome. Clearing the cache did the job. There’s still a problem with chrome. Each time i add a widget, the theme disappears and everything is just text on the screen. Clearing the cache again restores the appearance. This problem doesn’t happen with IE or Firefox.

  • thesacredpath · Member ·

    Chrome has some issues lately and I’m not sure if it is because of Chrome updates or because of wordpress updates.

  • august1251 · Member ·

    Clearing Chrome’s cache worked for me — one time. Then it didn’t. (kilopages.wordpress.com)

    I am very frustrated that all the Help about adding widgets refers to things like a Save button on the Widgets page or an Add button on a widget title that don’t appear on the Widgets page (at least, they never have for me). Badly out of date and erroneous Help is more frustrating than no Help at all.

    The Widgets page that I see has a drag-n-drop interface where it seems as if I have to re-do all the widgets in my sidebars every time I want to make any changes. It certainly never has shown me what I already have, so I assume that I’m starting over blank every time. To help with that, I have the “before” version in a separate tab. I suspect that might be aggravating the cache issue, but since the Widgets page does not show your current configuration when you start it, I need some kind of reference.

    Based on this thread, my next attempt at a workaround will be doing all Widget work in another browser, but any suggestions are welcome.

  • august1251 · Member ·

    So an hour after my previous post, still in Chrome, for the first time I see the current state of my Widgets when I go to the Widgets page. Magic.

    I’ll try the spell again on a different problem.

    What does it take to edit the Text when you add a Text Widget to a sidebar? The heading elongates to the left, as if it’s about to open a window or something, but then nothing else happens. The little arrow/triangle at the right of the Text heading stays grey and doesn’t do anything.

    Any suggestions?

    Thanks.

  • thesacredpath · Member ·

    You know, my suggestion is to download and install Firefox 3.5 and use that for working with your blog. I’m not sure if the issues you are seeing with Chrome are the result of Google or wordpress or a combination of the two, but there are issues.

    As many problems as there are with all things Google recently (they seemed to have broken everything at once), I would suspect it’s a Chrome issue, but I don’t know that for sure.

  • august1251 · Member ·

    It’s not Chrome. I get exactly the same behavior in IE-7. Both Gravatar and Text widgets land in the sidebar with the title extended to the left, but that’s all that happens. And they don’t stick. There’s no “Save” button, but refreshing the Widgets page or opening the main page have the same result, the sidebars don’t have the Gravatar or Text widgets on them.

    So again, hoping for the magic, how do you get Gravatar or Text to stick in the Sidebar and how do you edit the Text in the Text Widget?

    What am I missing?

    KiloPages.WordPress.Com

  • thesacredpath · Member ·

    IE7 has been a known problem with text widgets for well over a year, so the fact that it does not work in IE7 either really points nowhere.

    Download and install FF 3.5, give it a try and if it doesn’t work you can uninstall it.

  • august1251 · Member ·

    Argh! I had tried FF too, but it seems I have FF 3.0.1.

    I’ll try updating.

    Frustrating when switching browsers can’t eliminate the browser as the problem!

    Thanks.

  • thesacredpath · Member ·

    Once you have it updated, make one more trip to http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/ and install the latest version of the flash player just to make sure you are using the most up to date version.

  • august1251 · Member ·

    Hi thesacredpath,

    In 3.01, Help > Update took me to 3.0.3. In 3.0.3, Help > Update offered to take me to 3.0.11.
    I’m surprised that they would only take me up in tiny steps. Is that the recommended route?

    In any case, I’ve downloaded 3.5 and will try it.

    Thanks,
    August

    P.S. My apologies to the OP, ymadhuri, for hijacking this thread. At least the topic is still accurate and therefor all this may still help folks searching for answers to ymadhuri’s original question.

  • thesacredpath · Member ·

    @august, let us know how things go.

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