I am trying to: Use a single widget cell in the header of Toolset Starter's default layout in place of the Visual Editor cell. The visual editor cell in headers and footers won't work for this site because we are using Events Manager and it fills all Visual Editor cells with its output.
I visited this URL: hidden link (I can create a login for you to use if needed)
I expected to see: When I click the edit link for the single widget's text widget, I can select the widget type and set tags but there is no place to edit the cell's content.
Just checked and I'm having the same issue with several sites on localhost and online. The only changes I'm aware of since the last time I know this worked properly are WordPress updates and updates to multiple Toolset plugins.
So I tried to replicate this issue on a fresh install and was not able to notice the problem. What I would recommend that you do is to temporarily disable all your non-toolset plugins and try again.
However as a workaround you can create a Widget area and add that to your Layouts and then go to your widgets options and then add the widget to that newly created widget area.
It's a longer process but the end result is the same.
Thought of that work-around but trying to avoid it since it is easier for the customer to mess with the header if it is exposed in the widgets list instead of in the layouts where I have a little more access control to protect it.
Also, the reason I'm trying to use a text widget instead of the visual editor is because of the long-running issue with Events Manager and Layouts. If you go to hidden link you can see the problem. Pretty sure this is because Events Manager provides its own page templates and they don't have Toolset integration but don't want to edit their templates and risk future update problems. So I make sure each page only has one visual editor or post content area and then all works well.
This site may or may not need Events Manager when it is done. They need some of the features but don't have a lot of events so I might make a more basic event management solution from Types and Views. Still, I use Events Manager on a lot of other sites and am always running into the issue with Visual Editor cells. I don't mind working around it with text widgets but, obviously, I need to be able to edit the text widget single widget cells.
I am also experiencing this problem on my site. I loaded a test site on my local machine (layouts version 2.0.1). This version produces the following for the layout for a single Text widget:
While the production server version (also 2.0.1) produces the following for a single Text widget:
<input id="widget-text-3-title" name="widget-text[3][title]" class="title" value="" type="hidden">
<input id="widget-text-3-text" name="widget-text[3][text]" class="text" value="The Certificate of Business Essentials provides a solid foundation in four specific areas of business knowledge—accounting, finance, economics, and management—and exposes professionals from various fields to the primary principles and vocabulary of business.
To earn the certificate, participants must successfully complete four required courses with a grade of C- or better. Courses are available on the Newark campus and via distance learning through UD Online. Students may take all courses on campus, or they may take some as on-campus courses, and some online.
ECON 100 Economic Issues and Policies Takes a non-technical approach to basic economics. Applies economics concepts to contemporary issues, problems, and policies. Covers topics in both microeconomics and macroeconomics. This requirement may also be met by taking both ECON 101 and ECON 103.
ACCT 200 Survey of Accounting
Introduction to financial accounting. Topics include the accounting cycle, merchandise accounting, accounting procedures for cash, receivables, payables, inventories, plant and equipment, stocks and bonds.This requirement may also be met by taking both ACCT 207 and ACCT 208.
BUAD 100 Introduction to Business
Intensive survey of the core business disciplines. An introduction to marketing, management, operations management, international business and business ethics will be included. This requirement may also be met by taking all three of the following courses: BUAD 301, BUAD 306, BUAD 309.
FINC 200 Fundamentals of Finance (OFFERED IN-CLASSROOM ONLY)
Provides an overview of the role of finance within a business organization. Topics include financial statement analysis, time value of money, capital budgeting, valuation, and the cost of capital. This requirement may also be met by taking FINC 311.
For some reason the production server is loading the data into hidden inputs instead of textareas. I'm not sure if that would help your developers track down the code or not, but I thought that I would add it.
To add to the above post. I realized that the local copy was still running WordPress 4.7. Once I updated my local copy to WordPress 4.8, the single Text Widget no longer worked. It produces the same hidden text widget locally as it does on the production server. There seems to be an issue with the single Text Widget and WordPress 4.8. Hope that helps debugging. Thanks.
Hi Shane, I removed several default Toolset Starter theme layout elements that used the visual editor and changed a few others to widget areas so I can keep going with this site. I also setup a new site from scratch without copying any database, themes, plugins, etc. from an existing site and still experienced the problem with not being able to edit the text widget when it is a single widget in a layout.
Now that you made a copy of the site to continue testing with, can I turn off the admin account I created for you to use on the original site?
