Changed Themes and all my widgets have dissapeared!

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  thedivinehunt · Member · Feb 19, 2015 at 5:19 am

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  I was playing around with some new themes and I believe I accidently saved it and now all my widgets, that ive spent so much time creating!, have dissapeared! help! Is there any way to bring it back?

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  kokkieh · Staff · Feb 19, 2015 at 8:50 am

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  Hi there. In the WP-Admin dashboard, go to Appearance ->Widgets. At the bottom of that screen is a section for Inactive Widgets. If your widgets are there you can just add them back. If they’re not, I’m afraid you’ll have to recreate them from scratch.

  I recommend you register a new private blog which you can use as a test blog to try out new themes. That will prevent something like this from happening in future.

  Also, in future before you switch themes, move your widgets to the inactive widgets area. Then after changing themes you can just move them back to the sidebar/footer.