accidentally deleting a widget

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  siderealview · Member · Oct 22, 2017 at 9:48 pm

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  Last night, tired, I accidentally deleted my ‘blogroll’ widget while attempting to add link 2 a friend’s blog. How do I get it back. Don’t think it went to ‘inactive widgets’. Can’t find it. Is it gone forever. Do I have to get all those links personally?

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  timethief · Member · Oct 22, 2017 at 9:53 pm

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  You are referring to the Links widget.

  Customizer https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/

  You can create a blogroll or related sites no matter where they are hosted. You can create/edit a Blogroll in your Dashboard http://en.support.wordpress.com/blogroll/add-a-blogroll-link/ and then display it by installing the Links widget. http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/links-widget/

  We cannot enter links into the widget itself. The Links widget merely displays the links we enter in our dashboard “Links”. We enter a new link this way > http://en.support.wordpress.com/blogroll/add-a-blogroll-link/

  See also the support docs:
  Adding and Configuring Widgets
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/#adding-and-configuring-widgets
  Widget Visibility

  Widgets

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  siderealview · Member · Oct 22, 2017 at 10:12 pm

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  Thanks timethief—I have NO IDEA how, but I re-“added” the link widget & miraculously my previous page returned. I shall keep your nugget of info (above) for future disasters!! Bless

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  timethief · Member · Oct 22, 2017 at 10:13 pm

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  You’re welcome. Bless you too and best wishes with your site. :)