I have the same problem even though I've tried the suggested fixes above. Now using JCE and still cannot save any Widget:
Running Joomla 1.7.3, Zoo 2.5.6, Virtuemart 2, Widgetkit 1.0.0, JCE 2.1.19.
Any help would be appreciated - happy to supply admin access.
Many thanks

OK Fixed. I totally removed Widgekit, downloaded again (same version) and re-installed. Now all works correctly and I can save all of the Widgets. I hope this helps someone with the same problem.

Solution for Wordpress 3.31 - 3.3.2 and Widgetkit 1.0.5 users.

The problem with saved widget items disappear when hitting the save button got resolved by this:

1. Go to Settings >> Writing
2. Second option "Formatting" Uncheck "WordPress should correct invalidly XHTML automatically"

This solved my problem!

My system is the following:
Wordpress 3.3.2
Balance theme
Widgetkit 1.0.5
TinyMCE editor default

I have to agree with Jeremy Lewis. We are not getting help from actual staff members pretty terrible support!

This worked for me also. I totally removed Widgekit, downloaded again (same version) and re-installed. Now all works correctly and I can save all of the Widgets. I hope this helps someone with the same problem.

I've reinstalled the component several times, and have tried all editors (and none). The problem seems to happen when you edit already saved content. The work around is horrible. I basically have to create a new entry for a slideshow or slideset, and then delete the old entry. The other problem is that when it is fixed, if I have to reinstall the fixed version, I lose all of my work.

My issues are the same as jeffsieh72 only my solution is to just disable the editor for the user, make the changes and save (Note: In JCE you can edit the code with the code editor plugin but it does not work either). Then go back and enable the editor again. Considering I am now paying for this tool I see no reason why it should not work? As is common in YooTheme forums when things are a mess NO mods or developers reply to the thread, so we can only hope they are working on this.

Same issue here. I could add images to a slideshow, but it would not save the hyperlinks I was adding to them. Uninstalled and reinstalled Widgetkit, then it worked. However, it will, again now, not save any more changes.

I am running:
Joomla 2.5.1
Widgetkit 1.0.1
JCE 2.0.20

The "Answer" voted above does NOT correct the issue.

Same problem, last version of widgetkit 1.0.5 on wordpress 3.3.1.
After save, every setting of the widget dissapear.

Fixes do not work. I should not have to turn off JCE to operate your extension I have paid for.

Solution for Wordpress 3.3.2 and Widgetkit 1.0.5 users.

The problem with saved widget items disappear when hitting the save button got resolved by this:

Go to Settings >> Writing
Second option "Formatting" Uncheck "WordPress should correct invalidly XHTML automatically"
This solved my problem!

My system is the following:
Wordpress 3.3.2
Inspire theme
Widgetkit 1.0.5

Thx marcus.f.valfridsson, your solution solved my problem!

Wordpress 3.4.1
Widgetkit 1.2.1

The problem with saved widget items disappear when hitting the save button got resolved by this:

Go to Settings >> Writing
Second option "Formatting" Uncheck "WordPress should correct invalidly XHTML automatically"

WTF!!!! I am about to start LOSING CLIENTS because they are frustrated that they cannot create or edit any WidgetKit items~ There are no options for adding new items, gallery folder selection is NOT working and when you go into a demo WidgetKit item to add content, ALL CONTENT DISAPPEARS!! FIX THIS...LIKE YESTERDAY..!

At least give all of the commenters here a 3 month extension on their membership for the wasted time and trouble with this essential element of Yootheme...

I have disabled the JCE editor (2.2.84) for the Widgetkit (1.3.1) component, but still will not allow me to update the "Template" setting to "Revista", and the slideset has disappeared from front page.

Please, what is the solution? These continual problems are getting very expensive!

Geoff

I need some sort of solution or timeline on this to tell my clients. I have already had to do a partial refund to one client because they cannot save any of their slideshow items. Once they take time to work on slideshow items to get them just the way they want, then hit save, WidgetKit deletes the whole thing and leaves the WidgetKit element with NO ITEMS! It erases the WHOLE THING! I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling WidgetKit, clearing the site cache, doing Writing settings uncheck below and nothing is working. Everything worked fine before the last WidgetKit update, yet I cannot download a previous (stable) version from the Yootheme website anymore. Any help, ANY HELP, would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks and take care...

Go to Settings >> Writing  
Second option "Formatting" Uncheck "WordPress should correct invalidly XHTML automatically"  

Hi all,

Well I new with wordpress.. have been switching from Joomla !
I'm starting with wordpress 3.5 and the widgetkit 1.3.2.. but I still have the same issue.. whensaving everything dissapears ! I'm losing all the content of my slideshow !
I try checked the option : "WordPress should correct invalidly XHTML automatically" but it doesn't help either !

Any new suggestion would be very much appreciated !

Please add Super Admin access to the Hidden text area of your question.

YOOgards

Same here,

when selected and configured a map for example, and then hitting save, a new, blank map widget opens, and no widget is saved. what to do?

I have the same problem....

I also have the same problem. When I save nothing is created.

I had the same problem - it was related to TinyMCE (perhaps something in the template bollocksed it up).

Use another editor - if you have that alternative editor set to your user default, then WidgetKit will show only source editing (HTML editing without help of editor).

So - to avoid editing raw HTML code - create an article to the desired effect, view source - then copy/paste the the generated HTML code into your WidgetKit content entry area (eg: accordion item edit).

Hope it helps.

I solved the problem by uploading the template again with the demo pack. It seems that the Widgetkit and Zoo have some issues with uploading because for both I had to upload several times before they worked properly. For Widgetkit, now that there is a stable release, maybe uploading it again will take care of the problem. Good luck!

I have the same issue with JCE 1.5.7.20 and as long as I add content with no editor it will save. Not an ideal way to work and real problems if someone does not know html.

Did some more tests on this and it is happening with all editors. This was never an issue until WidgetKit went out of beta.

Reinstalling the component, all work fine.

I have had exactly the same issue and banged my head against a wall. Turned off JCE editor and all is fine apart from the obvious that I have no JCE editor

I had the same issue. I just reinstalled and now can save new content, but I can not sytle font colors or bold, etc. Will not save. So there is a bug going on with JCE and Widegkit again.

Wishlist is to have the option to toggle editor on or off like we can do for articles. this would solve everyones issue when these bugs occur. It would be edit content, toggle editor off, then hit save. I have to do this with some articles when using some of Yoothemes style codes.

Ooops spoke to soon, It is not saving accordion. It saved my first item without any styling, example: bullets, font color. etc. but did not save my second item in the next editor. (just like the previous posts... this is on existing data trying to edit).

Same problem with slideset on wordpress (and shelf theme).... any suggestion??

update: it seems a plugin make crash the widgetkit while savings settings for the slideset... maybe the tiny mce extended... now I disabled all plugin and it works, justo complete the editing of the slideset and then re-activate the plugins...

the same here....

Joomla 1.7.5
Widgekit 1.0.1
JCE 2.0.20

This is a bug in JCE, there is a fix around that solves the issue. I do not know when this will be fixed in an official new release of JCE. In the meantime you wil have to disable JCE or apply the fix yourself: http://www.joomlacontenteditor.net/forum/jce-editor/bug-jce-2020/55492#p55492

I'm also having this problem. I can't save anything including settings on the widgets.

I have my site set up not use an editor so that's not the problem.
I'm running Joomla 2.5.1 with the latest widgetkit just re-downloaded and re-installed.
I tried setting permissions are set to their highest on all folders to troubleshoot and it didn't change the behaviour at all.

Florian nailed it look to the JCE forum for a solution.
http://www.joomlacontenteditor.net/forum/jce-editor/bug-jce-2020/55492#p55492

Same problem for me. Strange enough when using internet explorer i can save! (not with firefox or Safari)
Is the version Widgetkit in the template i download (Balance) different from the stand alone version?

What is up with all these "support" issues" not being addressed by staff members?

If these "forums" are not what customers should be using to get help from the staff...what should be used? Is email really the only way customers can hope to get support? Seems awfully antiquated.

Same happened for me, always had to turn JCE editor off before editing any slideshows etc.

Solved by downloading latest version of JCE (com_jce_2021).

All working now using JCE Editor.

I finally gave up on using the slideshow widget I went and got another extension that seems to be doing the job. Its Called Sp Tabs if anyone is interested in finding it.

I'm having the same issue. Please fix.

If you are using the latest version and this still happens then you need to see what else might be buggy. With the latest update the tool has been fixed.

Same problem with Joomla! 2.5.6 and Widgetkit 1.1.1.
Not using JCE.
Youtheme! Please help!

Try to uninstall and reinstall it - http://www.yootheme.com/support/question/17974#answer-55116

NOTHING WORKS WITH THOSE EXTENSIONS!!! I NEED HELP!

Each time I want to create a slideshow, accordion or any of the other extensions of the kit, when I press the button save everything goes as if I have written nothing, and nothing is saved...I already changed the permissions with Filezilla as explained on the documentation and FAQ....and still the same problem

I am using the version of Joomla: 2.5.7

Only for Directadmin,

go to Directadmin login

click files
click public html
click administrator
click components
click com_widget-kit

look now on the right site of your page in Directadmin for all maps in com_widget-kit, when you see APACHE, that's the problem

select the row, en click RENAME, APACHE must not shown, your login must be shown.

Sjef

suc6

Solution

Guys i had the same problem like everyone here. I'm using Sync template and i was cheese-off that i was not getting lots of help from tech support.

Anyway solution,

1. first go to this link and follow the instructions
   http://www.joomlacontenteditor.net/forum/jce-editor/bug-jce-2020/55492#p55492

2. uninstall reinstall widgetkit.

That did it for me. Thank you all for your comments and help and "tech support"

I am facing the same issue. In my case the culprit is another comp- called RPL ( REALTYNA ) . Since their last update I have lost the ability of editing ( on adding pictures for example to a slideshow - there are no thumbs of the added pics - just a gray bar with the path - and nothing underneath) or saving ( after hitting save it returns empty )
Uninstalling WidgetKit, installing it back, did not helped.
I wasn't using the JCE editor - so I went ahead and installed it. Than applied the fix. Nothing helped.
Uninstalling the RPL component did the trick. But here is my dilemma. I NEED the RPL component as I am running a RealEstate site...

Can anyone in YooTheme please read/hear our grief and try to fix this ? Please?

Thank you!

I had the same problem and deinstall and install fixed it but you loose all your galleries (not the folder with images). But whats really disappointing is that the yoo team ignoring this problem. 40 answers and no comment from the creators.
I didn't had jce installed, so can't be the reason for the error!

Sorry, for a payed product thats a bad service.

Regards, Michael

Same issue here with wordpress 3.4.2, none of the suggestions in this thread have helped, unable to save widgetkit slideshows/accordions/ etc when they have images in them (just text saves fine, but that's hardly useful!)

Hi Yootheme team

I am using Widgetkit Lite, but every time i try create a slideshow it doesn't seem to want to save.
Is there something a am not doing?
I would really appreciate it if we could get a solution...

Купила Виджеткит, не работает... подскажите плиз, как мне загрузить...
не устаналивается.... или он только на джумла 2,5...
может из за этого... я новичок... и мне нравитятся эти модули...

I am having a similar issue with Joomla 2.5.8 and Widgetkit 1.3.1. The "Toggle Source Code" button is not available when using JCE 2.3.1 with widgetkit. I have tried disabling the editor, and tried other browsers (I'm using Chrome) - same resiult.

YooTeam, it looks like this has been going on for a while; you have a great product, I find it hard to believe you can't fix this quickly...

Please help.

My apologies Yoo Team; I found the answer in JCE. There is a "Toggle Source Code" button in JCE that does what I was asking for.

As far as I can tell right now from initial testing, it seems like the issue has been resolved with WidgetKit Version 1.3.2. I also upgraded from Wordpress 3.4 to 3.5 and things seem to have stabilized. The real test for me will be if Editors and Contributor level users can finally save their WidgetKit items without them being deleted. I'll keep you posted...

Ok sorry for my last post .. I posted to quickly,
It mas my mistake !
Reading this support post solved the problem for me :

File permission...

as said I put the cache directory as said in permission 755 and it worked !

Well once more I have to come back regarding the saving of a gallery in the big easy template.
Altough every modification works, once I add a caption in the field, after saving everything desapears again !

Any Idea about this ?

Thanks in advance !

I am having a similar problem and it is driving me mad.

I put some new images in my directory for the slideshow. And now I can't save anything or even show the gallery.
I reviewed the names of all the images. They all look good. Yet, nothing I do will make it save. It sets the gallery to default and zeroes out the height and width.

This bug is very annoying and needs to be fixed! How hard can that bug be???

I had the same problem but got it solved by clearing the cache in the Joomla admin panel.