[Steven Zahm]

@ John

I didn’t fix it, but it works now…

The page was actually loading fine, there was a fatal javascript error occurring which preventing the page preview and the Customizer from running.

It was not Connections, but the Connections Widget Pack. Specifically, I tracked it down to the code which registers the Connections Widgets Sidebar.

As soon as I remove the code, which is standard code WordPress code, nothing “funcky”, the page loaded fine.

So to hopefully track down the issue I let the sidebar be registered.

I wondered what would happen if I added a random widget to the sidebar. Success it worked. So I remove the widget, and, now it works without a widget it it too.

At this point I really have no clue why this happened. The only thing I know is the error was in the part of the core WordPress code removing “abandoned” widgets registrations (widgets added to a sidebar). “Abandoned” means, in this case, removing widgets which no longer exist (as would happen when deactivating a plugin which had widgets and its widget were active on a sidebar) assigned to an existing sidebar.

I can only guess at this point something was saved to WordPress which which triggered the error when the Widget Pack was activate.

If this happens again, please let me know. I would love to dig deeper into exactly what was happening.