If you’re a self-hosted Wordpress user and have upgraded to WP2.5, you need to know there is a serious ‘gotcha’ in the revised sidebar widget building section. If you use text widgets to include custom HTML, javascript or other non-PHP code and want to make changes or add new ones then be very careful how you do it.
Here’s what the screen looks like before you make any changes:
If you then change one of the widgets, this is what the screen looks like as you are making changes:
Notice the ‘change’ button? If you hit that and then save changes to the widget group, it will wipe out the text widget content of ALL other text widgets in the sidebar. You have to ignore the change button and only hit Save. If you need to make multiple changes, then edit each widget individually but do not hit ‘change,’ wait until you’ve made all necessary changes and then hit save. I only discovered this by accident and found myself having to re-create several important widgets. It is truly annoying .
