How do I enable editing in the widget menu?

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    natdavidson · Member ·

    I am having trouble editing my widgets. I can’t drag new ones to the widget area. Nor can I open the widgets in the sidebar to edit them. Also, enabling the option to change them through the screen options is disabled.

    Is this a problem on my end or the website?

    Thanks!

    Nat
    Blog url: http://bapcstudents.wordpress.com/

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    evarlese · Member ·

    Hi Nat,

    Currently, it looks like you only have the default Widgets active on your site. To edit and/or change any of the Widgets that appear in your site’s sidebar, you’ll need to head over to your Dashboard -> Appearance -> Widgets page.

    Here, you can activate any of the available Widgets by dragging them into the Sidebar module. For full instructions, please take a look at:

    Widgets

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    natdavidson · Member ·

    Thanks for the reply Evarlese…but I’m still a little stuck.

    Right now I don’t have the ability to even drag new widgets to the Sidebar. Pressing the triangle won’t open a “pop-up” window where I was able to edit text and contents of the widget. I read on the widget instructions that there is an “Enable accessibility mode” in the screen options pull-down. I can’t access that either when I press the button and triangle. Is there something else I’m missing?

    Thanks

  • andrewspittle · Staff ·

    Hmm, okay. If you haven’t already can you try clearing your cache and cookies? If that doesn’t work can you let me know what browser you’re using? Thanks!

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    natdavidson · Member ·

    Thanks all. We figured it out. Realized that our DNS web filter was blocking whatever function it is that allows you to drag and open the widget menus. Thanks again.

  • andrewspittle · Staff ·

    Ah, that would do it. Thanks for letting us know.

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