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I'm going to answer my own question, but I don't understand.. yet and will research further and would like to see if someone else can explain. I overwrote the wp-admin/widgets.php file in one of the remote sites (created with a Softaculous script) with the one from my development site, which I had created manually, and the problem cleared up.

A file comparison of the widgets.php from the other remote site and the one at my local development site says they are identical. Same result: Uploaded the widgets.php from dev to remote, and now everything's OK again.

Weird.

ADDENDUM

My only guess at this point is that it has something do with character encoding on a deep level. I've seen similar problems and solutions reported in relation to other files and processes. This is the only example involving widgets.php that I've seen in my research.

I'm going to answer my own question, though I don't understand.. yet. I'll try to research further, and would like to see if someone else can explain. 

I overwrote the wp-admin/widgets.php file in one of the remote sites - which was created with a Softaculous script - with the same file from my development site, which I created manually, and the problem cleared up.

A file comparison of the widgets.php from the other remote site and the one at my local development site says they are identical. Same result: Uploaded the widgets.php from dev to remote, over-writing the latter, and now everything's OK again.

Weird.

ADDENDUM

My only guess at this point is that it has something do with character or file encoding on a deep level. I've seen similar problems and solutions reported in relation to other files and processes. This is the only example involving widgets.php that I've seen in my research.

I'm going to answer my own question, but I don't understand.. yet and will research further and would like to see if someone else can explain. I overwrote the wp-admin/widgets.php file in one of the remote sites (created with a Softaculous script) with the one from my development site, which I had created manually, and the problem cleared up.

A file comparison of the widgets.php from the other remote site and the one at my local development site says they are identical. Same result: Uploaded the widgets.php from dev to remote, and now everything's OK again.

Weird.

I'm going to answer my own question, but I don't understand.. yet and will research further and would like to see if someone else can explain. I overwrote the wp-admin/widgets.php file in one of the remote sites (created with a Softaculous script) with the one from my development site, which I had created manually, and the problem cleared up.

A file comparison of the widgets.php from the other remote site and the one at my local development site says they are identical. Same result: Uploaded the widgets.php from dev to remote, and now everything's OK again.

Weird.

ADDENDUM

My only guess at this point is that it has something do with character encoding on a deep level. I've seen similar problems and solutions reported in relation to other files and processes. This is the only example involving widgets.php that I've seen in my research.

I'm going to answer my own question, but I don't understand.. yet and will research further and would like to see if someone else can explain. I overwrote the wp-admin/widgets.php file in one of the remote sites (created with a Softaculous script) with the one from my development site, which I had created manually, and the problem cleared up.

Will shortly do some file compares and such.

I'm going to answer my own question, but I don't understand.. yet and will research further and would like to see if someone else can explain. I overwrote the wp-admin/widgets.php file in one of the remote sites (created with a Softaculous script) with the one from my development site, which I had created manually, and the problem cleared up.

A file comparison of the widgets.php from the other remote site and the one at my local development site says they are identical. Same result: Uploaded the widgets.php from dev to remote, and now everything's OK again.

Weird.