How do I get these widgets to work?

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  ghadahalkandari · Member · Jul 16, 2013 at 8:43 am

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  I purchased the Profile theme yesterday but can’t seem to get the Music Widget and Gallery Widget to work. Also, my left column isn’t appearing so I’m left with a two-column blog instead of three. Help!

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  eurello · Staff · Jul 16, 2013 at 7:14 pm

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  Hi there – for the three column layout, you have to create a page with the “Three Column” template. Here’s what that looks like:
  http://profiledemo.wordpress.com/three-column/

  Here’s how to pick a page template: http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-attributes/

  If you want your 3-column page to be your posts instead of a static page, create a page with the template titled “Blog” or “Home” and then select that as your Posts page in Setting->Reading.

  For the two widgets, can you please add them again as you had them set up, so I can take a look and see what’s going on? :)

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  ghadahalkandari · Member · Jul 16, 2013 at 7:58 pm

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  Eurello,

  Hi and thank you for your reply!

  I managed to get three columns but ended up with a static page (I want three columns throughout the blog).

  I’ve also added the widgets. In both the Music and Gallery widgets I can’t add songs or images respectively.

  Frustrated!

  Ghadah
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  eurello · Staff · Jul 16, 2013 at 10:23 pm

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  Hi Ghadah,

  I managed to get three columns but ended up with a static page (I want three columns throughout the blog).

  I can’t figure out if there’s a way to have a three-column posts page with Profile. Could you please ask the theme authors in the Profile forum here: http://premium-themes.forums.wordpress.com/forum/profile

  I’ve also added the widgets. In both the Music and Gallery widgets I can’t add songs or images respectively.

  For the Gallery widget, when you click the “Choose Images” button, you need to click the “Add to Gallery” link on the left-hand side of the pop-up and then click “Media Library” to see your images. Here’s a screenshot to show you what I’m talking about: http://cl.ly/image/413u2c232R1H

  For the Music widget, when I click “Choose Songs” I get this Playlist Editor where I can choose songs to add. Is this not what you see? http://cl.ly/image/2K3f3F3P1C1g

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  ghadahalkandari · Member · Jul 17, 2013 at 4:42 am

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  Widgets:

  Gallery: Nothing happens when I click on ‘Choose Images’. It doesn’t respond.

  Music: I get the Playlist Editor and choose my songs. I do see what you sent me. But then this is what I get when I click ‘Insert Playlist into Post’:

  http://ghadahalkandari.wordpress.com/wp-admin/media-upload.php?tab=playlist&post_id=0

  an empty page.

  Perhaps I need to update my OS? I’ve never had problems with my widgets before, they all seem pretty straightforward (even the Gallery and Music ones)

  Ghadah

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  ghadahalkandari · Member · Jul 17, 2013 at 4:55 am

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  Hello again!

  I just wanted to let you know that the Gallery worked. I disabled the accessibility mode.

  Thank you so much for your patience, Eurello! The Happiness Engineer indeed :)

  Ghadah

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  eurello · Staff · Jul 17, 2013 at 4:34 pm

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  Hi Ghadah – Aha! Perfect, I’m glad you figured it out. :)

  Let me know if you need any further help getting everything set up!

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  ghadahalkandari · Member · Jul 17, 2013 at 4:39 pm

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  Thank you! You’ve been very helpful :)!