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I am trying to use the following widget:

{{widget type="Magento\Catalog\Block\Category\Widget\Link" anchor_text="ewrrewq" title="rqewrqrq" template="category/widget/link/link_block.phtml" id_path="category/482" }}

but nothing is displayed. I did some diggings and I found out that

Magento\Catalog\Block\Category\Widget\Link

is a virtualType declared in 

vendor/magento/module-catalog/etc/di.xml.

What bothers me is that I cannot seem to debug it at all. Looks like that block is silently failing to initialize, do you have any tips on how do handle this ?

EDIT: it seems that many of the widgets are not working although they work on a clean installation using the default theme. It might be the installed theme, I will disable it and see check again

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    I've tested in a clean 2.3.1 installation with sample data and I can't replicate your issue.
    – Daniel Sousa
    Commented May 15, 2019 at 21:59
  • please check id_path
    – fmsthird
    Commented May 16, 2019 at 3:29
  • thanks for testing, it might be some of my addons then.
    – cip123
    Commented May 16, 2019 at 4:32
  • Yes, tested on a clean installation myself and it seems that it works. I will update my questions
    – cip123
    Commented May 16, 2019 at 6:59

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OK, this is a little embarrassing but it might help somebody.

At some moment I deleted the categories from url_rewrites, for some dumb reason. The widget was looking for some data inside that table and since it didn't find it, it returned blank.

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  • Hi, it's showing blank on mine site, too. how do i check if its missing?
    – Mage Explorer
    Commented Jan 24, 2020 at 19:15
  • How is this the accepted answer? This doesn't help at all. I've been trying to find the solution here for a couple of days now. I'm sure it's something stupid I'm overlooking too.
    – TheTC
    Commented Mar 2, 2020 at 19:33
  • I accepted it myself :). In my case, like I said it didn't find the category in the url_rewrite table.
    – cip123
    Commented Mar 2, 2020 at 19:55
  • It's really as described. Thanks for the saved time! After I added URL rewrite for categories in widget (link) - it became not empty.
    – Sergey Uskov
    Commented Jun 15, 2021 at 7:29

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