Lost content of all widgets
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I accidentally erased all the content in my sidebar widgets while experimenting with a new theme. Is it possible to restore my blog to a previous state, before I completely etherized everything – all my links, accumulated over many years, for example – while I was trying to customize my widgets in a newer theme? Help!!!
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Your widgets should just be on the Widget page in the “Inactive” area. Take a look there and just drag them back into the proper sidebar area.
I thought they’d fixed that bug.
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Oh my goodness, thank you, thank you. You have saved me hours and hours and hours of time and energy.
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You’re welcome. It still shouldn’t have blown the widgets out of the sidebar unless you switched to a no-sidebar theme.
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The theme had sidebars, but it displayed two of them: identical sidebars, one on the left of the main text column, the other on the right. I thought I was deleting one of them (the left one), but when I did that, they both disappeared and I freaked out, of course, since, until you wrote to me how to fix the problem, there seemed to be no way to “restore” the sidebar content. WordPress’s support documents should definitely make a bigger deal of the existence of the Inactive Widgets! I was hoping to find something equivalent to the “restore to an earlier date” function of the computer hard drive, but the words “restore” don’t work at all in the WordPress Help search bar. Thank goodness you came to my rescue – I had already begun the laborious (actually, impossible) task of re-creating all my widgets, one by one…and I was in despair about how the heck I would ever recreate my lost blogroll!
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