unable to update any text or html widget
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The other thing to do is to go through and look at each and every widget you have in the active widgets in all the sidebars and see if there are any that are unused (no content) as they take up space too. I believe I did see a couple of image widgets with nothing in them (of course that doesn’t help on the text/html side of things).
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That makes sense. The reason why I ended up using so many html and text widgets, and including images in them, was to make it easier on me in keeping track of them per episode. But realizing now that there is a limit (which I did not know when I started), there is no way I can continue on the same roadmap. For example, season seven is really the only season that I completed, and with it a ton load of widgets. Moving a few things like you suggested will not work in the long wrong given the scope of what I envisioned. I really think I have to start over from scratch and come up with a different design: one that is simpler in structure, and one which relies less on widgets and more on the content of posts.
I will have to give this some thought.
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My 100 dollars only permits css customization for one site. Otherwise, I could have the portal and recap pages on another site (cloned to look the same), but I don’t want to have to pay another 100 dollars just to have css customization for that site, too. Is there a way around this, or other options available that I might not know about?
The business plan looks appealing (now that it has added plugins to its feature list), but that is still for just one website, isn’t it?
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I see you are using a lot of image maps in custom HTML widgets (episode menus). Can those be done instead with custom menu widgets without the image and all the HTML needed to do them? Again, like with image widgets and RSS widgets, they are saved in a different area from text and HTML widgets. I know this would change the look of your design, but it is one thing that occurred to me.
Yes, the Business plan is just for one site, and this is a WordPress core limit I think, so it would still be an issue. It could be though that you could have someone create a plugin for your episode menus which would then take load off of the text/HTML area.
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I am still worried. I have at least another 50 more character images to create, and 65 more episode outlines (text widgets). I just don’t see it working, even if I get rid of the menus I set up using the html widgets and switch over to the menu widgets.
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It’s a tough thing. I’m not sure what else to suggest. There is no limit on the length of content on pages, so perhaps some of it could be incorporated into the page content areas instead of using Text and/or custom HTML widgets in the sidebars. Looking at the content in the right sidebar on Season 1 though, I’m not sure how you would do that. Each of the images within that text widget could be moved to image widgets and keep the text stuff in text widgets, or custom html widgets. The composer’s name could be added as a caption to the image.
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yes, but that would mean creating 85 image widgets for the music (each image has a link corresponding to its episode, and then 85 image widgets for the Genius.com script, and 85 image widgets for another image,etc. etc. I am sure I would quickly reach my image widget limit, too.
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what do you think about eliminating the portal pages altogether? Do you think that would suffice? That would mean getting rid of all those images in the html/text widgets.
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before I start eliminating entire portal pages, I thought I would follow your advice and start deleting the image maps from season 1. I deleted all of them, but still no change.
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Hmmm, that is weird. Let me see what else I can come up with then. It may take a bit to get a developer to take a look since we have a company-wide event going on. Hang in there.
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I seemed to be able to resolve the problem (at least for now). It seemed the culprit was the text widgets. Through trial and error I discovered that I was able to edit and save text widgets only by going into the the html view and once I did that it “fixed” whatever glitch was causing the system to not be able to edit and save in the visual view.
Or maybe deleting the image maps from season 1 just took awhile to fix things.
Whatever, things seem to be working now. I am interested though to see if there are really LIMITS and if I had reached them. So if you can find that out I would appreciate it.
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Great that things are working for you now. There isn’t a number of widgets limit, but there is a limit on the total size (in mb) for that option, and that has to do with keeping the sites from severely slowing down because of all the data that has to be loaded, sorted and organized and sent to the browser. In only rare instances does this mb limit ever become an issue, and you aren’t that close to the limit. It may be that with all the text widgets, there might be a syntax error somewhere in one of them that is/was causing the issue.
On deleting the image maps, there could have been a lag between when you deleted them and when that deletion actually happened in our databases. Generally the items are “marked” for deletion, but the deletions happen at a scheduled time, or times throughout the day.
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I started having problems again. i was unable to add anymore text widgets. Instead I am now using custom html widgets and having no problem. Is there a way for you to check if the threshold for custom html widgets is higher than text widgets, and by how much?
Left hand column on the following page is html customization
https://game-of-thrones-episodes.com/101-winter-is-coming/
When I tried to add the lower half of that column into a text widget it would not allow me. I started to have the same problems as before.
This is frustrating.
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So if you can find the “syntax error” that you described above that would be awesome. It would be found in the area below 10-FIRE AND BLOOD on the left hand column.
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I have deleted almost all my text widgets and I still cannot edit or the ones remaining. So far the problem seems to be contained to only text widgets (unlike before when all text widgets were affected).
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Thanks, I’ve been playing around, and like you, I can add other widgets, including adding custom HTML widgets to your footer widget area (did footer because it’s easier to find when checking on your site).
You have a lot of widgets.
I am seeing some things that you should correct. In Custom Menus items that do not yet have a link, you cannot put this,
http://-
as a link as it causes a syntax error Remove those menu items in any menu you have added them, or if you want them as placeholders, then use this as the link
https://game-of-thrones-episodes.com/#
If on pages other than the home page, then use the URL of that page with the /# after it.Also, in your image widgets, I’m seeing where in the Image Library you have used relative urls, such as on the ScreenPrism Look Closer image ( /lessons-from-history/ ). Although that works, in my experience it is best to always use absolute urls. This isn’t causing the issue though, just an FYI.
Also on this page, https://game-of-thrones-episodes.com/405-first-of-his-name/, I’m seeing where you copied/pasted an h4 element off of an RSS widget, which brought with it the CSS id, which creates a duplicate of that ID, and you cannot have duplicate CSS ids. You can use CSS classes more than once, but not IDs. It is in the Character Deaths h4 element on that page. Browsers will ignore this, but it is one more thing for them to have to sort out when loading the page. Again, this isn’t causing the widget issue.
It is nearly impossible for me to look at all the pages on your site for syntax errors. One thing I would suggest would be to go through all your text widgets one by one, open them, switch from the text tab to the html tab and then save. I’m hoping that this action will catch any html errors that may be in them and correct them, even if you can’t specifically edit the widget.
The developers have not been able to find any specific issues with your site and with the text widgets other than just the sheer number of them and the amount of space they are consuming for that particular option.
My last long shot attempt with our developers, trying things from a different direction, didn’t yield any error happening on your Widget page. The conclusion is that it is simply the sheer number of widgets (all types included) you have used, and the actual amount of content in the text widgets, that is causing the issue.
I wish I had a magic wand to fix this.
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Thanks. I attended to the matters you cited.
1. Is there a program I can use/download that can check for syntax errors?
2. As for as the relative vs. absolute urls… What happens if in the future I change the URL from game-of-thrones-episodes.com to something else, or revert back to the wordpress url. Will all my links be automatically updated, too? That is the reason I am using the relative ones.
3. Lastly, do you see any problem with the hover dropdown menu I am implementing on top of the pages?
For example, if you go to the following page
https://game-of-thrones-episodes.com/101-winter-is-coming/
hover the mouse (or tap on if you are using a tablet) WINTER IS COMING on the top of the page, a two column drop down menu appears. The code for this (as well as for the three buttons to the left of that title (Portal, Recaps, and Scenes) is all contained in the HTML widget which also contains everything you see in the left hand column (except the map image and amazon books on the bottom). So there is a lot of stuff in just that one widget. Do you see any problems or potential problems there?
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The following episodes are coming along nicely.
Season 1, Episodes 1-4, and all the Season 7 episodes.
That is where I am at right now. All the other episodes in between are acting like placeholders right now. I have to break each episode down into scenes. That takes a lot of time. So right now, I am not too concerned with them. (But I did go ahead and fixed what you referred to on https://game-of-thrones-episodes.com/405-first-of-his-name) Anyways, it did serve as an illustrative example of what to look out for on other pages, so I thank you for that :)
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If you are hosted here and change domain names, or let it go back to the original WordPress.com URL, all the URLs on your site are automatically changed by our software, so there is no issues with absolute urls.
What I’ve been using for a long time is the online W3C validator. In general the software here keeps a pretty close eye on html code in posts/pages/widgets and will catch the majority of issues and correct them when you save. Once in a while though something will get through.
I don’t see any issues with the code you have at the top of that page except for the fact that it is in a text widget, which is where the issues are right now. You are getting closer to the storage limit for widgets and when you reach that limit, your site may not even load.
Anywhere you have images that are in text widgets, pull them out and put them in image widgets. Those have lower storage overhead. With the menu you have built in the left sidebar near the top, put that into a custom menu instead, which again has less overhead. Save the text widgets for text-based content.
Although this isn’t what you probably want to hear, I would also suggest possibly taking some of that content in the sidebars and putting it in the content area of new pages. There is no limit on the number of pages you can have, or how much you can put into them.
I’m just trying to figure out a way for you to be able to continue, and put in all the content you have planned without hitting that widget storage limit, and the above is all part of that thinking.
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