Changing default sidebar

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  rebeccamastermanportraits · Member · Apr 17, 2011 at 10:01 am

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  Hi all.

  I’d like to add the blog subscription widget to my default sidebar without losing everything else. Is this possible? When I drag the widget to the sidebar and view it everything else has disappeared!

  I’ve tried recreating the original by adding various widgets but I can’t add everything that’s missing. The theme is Greenery by iLemoned.

  http://booksandfoodanddogsandstuff.wordpress.com

  Thanks for any help,

  Yasmin

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Apr 17, 2011 at 12:10 pm

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  This article should help:
  http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/the-no-widgets-paradox/

  especially this:

  • Some users experience difficulties with dragging. If that’s the case, you can click “Screen Options” (while on the Widgets screen) and tick “Enable accessibility mode”: that will produce a more surefire “Add” tab to the right of each widget name.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Apr 17, 2011 at 1:24 pm

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  “I’ve tried recreating the original by adding various widgets but I can’t add everything that’s missing”.

  That’s what you need to do, and you can add everything that’s missing. The respective widgets are:
  Search
  Recent Posts
  Archives
  Categories
  RSS Links
  Links
  Meta

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  rebeccamastermanportraits · Member · Apr 17, 2011 at 4:18 pm

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  Thank you everyone.
  I’ve used widgets and got as close as I can….the “Recent Posts” isn’t quite the same as the default “Latest”…I should just stop being so precious!

  I found this on the link Tess posted:
  • The default sidebar items of a theme are artificially generated from the theme’s underlying files: in some cases they are not identical in look and/or function to the standard widgets common to practically all* wp.com themes.

  Once again, thank you :o)

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Apr 18, 2011 at 1:25 am

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  @yasmin: You’re welcome.
  The passage you quoted was written by me, but I fail to see any difference between the “Latest” widget and the “Recent Posts” widget in Greenery (other than the title, which you can change).

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  rebeccamastermanportraits · Member · Apr 18, 2011 at 9:30 am

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  Recent post lists only posts, the default Latest shows latest actib=vity including page updates, but I can get round this by posting to say I have added something to a page.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Apr 18, 2011 at 3:25 pm

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  Thanks – hadn’t noticed that!