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Wordpress error: “Are you sure you want to do this? Please try again.”

I’ve been updating my wordpress blogs the past weeks.

On www.edwinsoriano.com, I was trying to update one of my widgets. But when I click “save” on the widget, I kept getting this error:

Are you sure you want to do this?

Please try again.

After many attempts and getting the same result, I did a Google search for “Wordpress error are you sure you want to do this“. Most of the results had to do with Wordpress MU which I wasn’t using.

I was able to fix the error on my own. I found that if I deactivate one of my plugins, I no longer get the error.

Here’s how I did it:

1. In Wordpress, Go to Plugins section
2. Deactivate ALL plugins
3. Test if updating your widget now works.

   3.a. If widget update works, it means one of your plugins is causing the error. –> Proceed to step 4.

   3.b. If widget update still doesn’t work, it means the error is *not* caused by a plugin. –> I have no other solution so far.

4. RE-Activate your plugins one by one, each time checking if widget updating still works.
5. When you find a plugin that, when reactivated, causes the widget updating to have an error — REJOICE! You’ve found the erring plugin.

   5.a. Update this plugin or revert to older versions of the plugin. See if that works.

   OR

   5.b. Deactivate this plugin.

6. Repeat step 4 until all other plugins are reactivated.

Now I’m a happy puppy because I found a solution for the error in www.edwinsoriano.com . Hope the solution above can help other bloggers too.

One post-script, though. I’m encountering the same problem in www.technobiography.com . And the above solution isn’t working — I get the scenario 3.b. where the plugins do not cause the error.I’ll try in a while: reverting to basic theme. Let’s see if that works.

Worked like a charm for me. For both www.edwinsoriano.com and www.technobiography.com .

ka edong
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