I'm posting this here in case others run into the same issue. I find it rather suspect this bug didn't present itself to developers in the beta testing. But IMO I don't think they do a very good job at anything.
After the update to one ui 8 my widgets had issues. Please see the screen captures of what it should look like and what it looked like after the upgrade. The widgets either only showed the gear icon and then appeared on the setup page, or as in the upper left the widget appeared as 4 circles.
When I went into the page set up they also appeared but couldn't do anything with them. Couldn't select nothing. I couldn't select and move on the page in non set up mode either.
I cleared cache partition as well as reboot my device a couple times. This did nothing but waste time. The solution to this is to delete the page and start over. It was the only way we could figure out how to get the widgets back.
What it looked like after the update. White square is me blocking out information.
What it should have looked like and does now. White squares are me blocking out info.
What the set up page looked like.
