WordPress Widgets don't show saved settings on front-end.

[iamzenigma]

Description

Any regular widgets (WordPress widgets, not elementor specific widgets) save, yet do not show updated values in the input/select fields. So whenever I drag a widget, fill it out and update it, the widget saves my settings and it displays correctly, but upon a reload or later access the front end editor shows the default widget values. Just to be extra clear on this, it DOES save, but the 'saved values' are not being displayed in the fields, instead the default values for the widget are shown.

I checked if this was also happening when adding widgets via the: Appearance > Widgets menu, but this was functioning as how it should.

I went inside some of my own widgets and saw that in the function: public function form($instance) the $instance variable returned an empty array (in the front-end editor of Elementor), so that would explain why it can't show the saved settings. I can't recall if Elementor (Free) always acted like this.

Is this a bug or a limitation of the free version?

Steps to reproduce

1. Drag a Wordpress widget in the editor.
2. Fill out some of the settings.
3. Save it.
4. Reload/Refresh the page and the widget shows the default values again.

Environment

== Server Environment ==
Operating System: Linux
Software: Apache
MySQL version: 5.6.32
PHP Version: 5.6.32
PHP Max Input Vars: 1000
PHP Max Post Size: 10M
GD Installed: Yes
Write Permissions: All right
Elementor Library: Connected

== WordPress Environment ==
Version: 4.9.4
Site URL: **************
Home URL: **************
WP Multisite: No
Max Upload Size: 10 MB
Memory limit: 40M
Permalink Structure: /%postname%/
Language: en-US
Timezone: ***********
Debug Mode: Inactive

== Theme ==
Name: Whimsy Art Theme
Version: 0.1
Author: Zenigma
Child Theme: Yes
Parent Theme Name: Themify Ultra
Parent Theme Version: 1.8.9
Parent Theme Author: Themify

== User ==
Role: administrator
WP Profile lang: en_US
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.181 Safari/537.36

== Active Plugins ==
Anywhere Elementor
Version: 1.0
Author: WebTechStreet

Contact Form 7
	Version: 5.0.1
	Author: Takayuki Miyoshi

Easy Testimonials
	Version: 3.1.1
	Author: Gold Plugins

Elementor
	Version: 2.0.1
	Author: Elementor.com

Elementor Addons & Widgets
	Version: 1.1.5
	Author: ThemeIsle

Flamingo
	Version: 1.8
	Author: Takayuki Miyoshi

Hide Admin Bar
	Version: 0.3.9.1
	Author: Shelby DeNike

Image Cleanup
	Version: 1.9.2
	Author: Robbert Langezaal, Simon Duduica

Jetpack by WordPress.com
	Version: 5.9
	Author: Automattic

MailChimp for WordPress
	Version: 4.2
	Author: ibericode

NavMenu Addon For Elementor
	Version: 1.1.2
	Author: ThemeIsle

Themify Portfolio Post
	Version: 1.0.7
	Author: Themify

WP Maintenance Mode
	Version: 2.1.2
	Author: Designmodo

[KingYes]

Thanks

[iamzenigma]

You're welcome and thank you for the quick fix!