Widget Guard is a safety net — it watches Tiger widgets for render errors and automatically recovers your site if one misbehaves, so a single faulty widget can never white-screen a page or lock you out of the editor.
Where: WP Admin → Tiger Elements → Tools → Widget Guard.
Automatic protection
If a widget triggers a fatal error while rendering, a shutdown handler detects it, identifies the offending widget, and — rather than letting the same crash repeat — quietly steps in. The rest of the page, and the Elementor editor, keep working. The screen shows a health status: all clear, or a list of what Widget Guard has disabled.
Strike-based, not trigger-happy
A one-off error doesn’t disable a widget. Widget Guard counts strikes in a rolling one-hour window and only auto-disables a widget after it has faulted three times in that window — so a transient glitch (a slow API, a momentary memory spike) won’t take a widget offline, but a genuinely broken one is contained. Every fatal is logged either way, and an admin notice reminds you when a widget has been auto-disabled.
Recovering a widget
- Open the Widget Guard screen and find the auto-disabled widget in the list.
- Address the underlying cause — usually a plugin conflict, a missing dependency, or a template that dequeues Elementor assets.
- Use the re-enable control to bring the widget back once you’re confident it’s fixed.
Troubleshooting
A widget keeps getting guarded after I re-enable it.
The root cause is still present. Check the fatal log entry for the file and line, then look for a conflicting plugin, a PHP version mismatch, or a theme that removes Elementor’s assets on that template.
The page still errors even though Widget Guard is on.
Widget Guard covers Tiger widget render fatals. A fatal from another plugin or the theme is outside its scope — check your PHP error log and WordPress debug log for the source.
Can I disable a widget myself instead of waiting for strikes?
Yes — turn it off in Tiger Elements → Settings under Active Widgets. That’s the clean way to retire a widget you don’t want, independent of Widget Guard’s automatic recovery.