Elgg 2.3.12 Image Slider stopped displaying, hence cannot be removed as widget
I am using image slider on my index page. Suddenly it stopped displaying, as well as preventing the display of everything else on the index page. The index page is now only displays "Image Slider" and 3 vertical dots (like bullet points).
While this is the situation, I realized that the browser at the same time was trying to contact flexslider.woothemes.com. Likely that this widget was getting some library from external party woothemes and likely that they stopped supporting it. I do not know.
Last year, I had tried out new versions of Elgg on virtual machines trying out up to/with Elgg 5.x and had decided not to upgrade due to lost functionality for me (mainly plugins that I needed not being available) in higher versions. I guess, this is one price to pay... Time to reconsider upgrading perhaps.
But meanwhile, how can I disable the use of this image slider on my index page? Since it is not displayed, I am no able to delete that widget from the index page.
Thank you for any help.
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- Nikolai Shcherbin@rivervanrain
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Find out Image Slider [image_slider]
Uncheck Available in the context + Can be added for index
As always you can ask a question on the plugin's page or open an issue on GitHub.
Thank you for your reply Nikolai.
I had tried it yesterday but then index page turned completely white and moreover Image Slider widget section disappeared from /admin/widgets/manage. I had recovered the site back from the backup. I think it created some sort of unhandled conflict like "it is used in index while it is not allowed to use it there" or due o something else on my site.
Kind Regards.
Only one idea: comment this widget (lines 96-100)
Thank you Nikolai! I add it into my action list. Before I try it, is there a way to clear the use of the image slider widget from my index page? Widget Manager must have created some signature (database entries etc) saying "image slider is used in this place on index page". Is there a way to do this and clean out the "signature"? Basically to mimic the action of removing the image slider if I could see it on screen.
Kind Regards
Sure.
Just hover over the widget settings icon or delete icon and find something like this:
your_url/action/widgets/delete?widget_guid=445&__elgg_ts=1755767933&__elgg_token=tuFVxpqbGaZKy9QFRMA_8A
where 445 is the entity GUID.
Now find that entity by GUID and delete it from the elgg_entities table.
Done.
Thank you Nikolai. In my case, the problem is; the widget settings icon is not displayed (actually nothing else displays other than "Image Slider" and three vertical dots. Hence, there is no widget settings button to hover about. Nevertheless, if I can find a way to find out the widget_guid of the image slider, I can get the elgg token from somewhere else and I can delete it with the URL you mentioned.
Kind Regards.
I don't think it will be easy.
It's better to use the method of deleting the entity from the database.
Another way to find out the widget GUID is to look at the source code. (Ctrl+I to open Devtools/Inspector in the browser).
There you'll find something like this:
where 446 is GUID.
Thank you Nikolai. I shall try!
Kind Regards.
UPDATE/ First of all, correction of problem statement: Almost-whitescreen is NOT created by the image slider widget. It is created by hypeScraper being hanged by an URL posted by a user. I cannot update the original post, hence here.
I was too much consumed by the "image slider" and three vertical dots displayed on otherwise all-whitescreen and the connection attempt to flexslider.woothemes.com in the status bar. Regardless of this, I should have checked the Apache error.log. A typical RTFL case. I am sorry for the wrong pointers...
I identified the URL posted by a user which made hypeScraper hang. After deleting that post, index screen displayed perfectly. I have no idea why some (albeit very rare) URLs cause white screen with hypeScraper.