Invisible Widgets

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  thefinerysalonandspa · Member · Nov 27, 2017 at 3:46 am

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  I currently have three visible widgets working fine on my site. One is a link to Facebook and the other two are text.

  I am trying to add a gallery carousel widget to my home page and another text only widget (this time on my services page). Neither are showing up. I have tried fixing them multiple times and can’t figure out why they won’t show up.

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  avydun · Staff · Nov 27, 2017 at 3:55 am

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  To make sure we are on the same page, are you talking about this WordPress.com site? https://thefinerysalonandspa.wordpress.com/

  When I visit your site, I see what you mentioned on the About page. On the Services page, I see the text-widget, which I assume is working as expected?

  As for the gallery carousel on homepage, can I confirm which widget you are trying to use? It’s suggested that you use this widget by the name Gallery Widget to do so. https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/gallery-widget/

  Let me know when you try this. I will be happy to help should you have questions.

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  thefinerysalonandspa · Member · Nov 27, 2017 at 4:01 am

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  Yes, I got the one for Services to work correctly somehow, but the gallery is still causing a problem. That’s the widget I’m using and I’m doing as the video instructs.

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  avydun · Staff · Nov 27, 2017 at 4:09 am

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  Here’s one more tip. It’s encouraged that you have a look at widget visibility conditions as explained here. https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/conditional-widget-visibility/

  You will have to enable visibility of the gallery widget for your homepage (and other pages you want to) using the conditions available.

  I hope this helps clarify things. Feel free to get back if you have questions related to WordPress.com account and WordPress.com sites and I will be keen on helping you through it!

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Nov 27, 2017 at 7:42 pm

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  thefinerysalonandspa – I see that the gallery widget you’ve set to display as a slideshow isn’t currently working. I’m going to dig into this some more and keep you posted here.

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Nov 27, 2017 at 8:19 pm

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  Ah, my mistake – I looked at the issue too quickly.

  Here’s the actual issue:

  The Sidebar widget area isn’t displayed on the front page in Dara, since the theme automatically applies a special no-sidebar homepage template when a static page has been set as the front page – there isn’t a way to override this.

  You could instead insert a slideshow gallery within the body of your page, instead of as a widget:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/gallery/

  Just let me know if you need help along the way.