lost default sidebar when adding text widget

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    kyounkin4 · Member ·

    Can someone please help a novice blogger? I tried for an hour to put a button my sidebar and finally figured out how to use a text widget. When I configured my text widget to add the button and dragged the text widget to the sidebar, my default sidebar disappeared and the button appeared. The rest of my sidebar (categories, pages, blogroll) does not appear on my blog and I can’t figure out how to get it back. Please help! Thanks!

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    thebarbarian · Member ·

    Once you add one widget, the entire sidebar needs to be customized at that point. You can choose from the selection of widgets and make a new sidebar to your liking.

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    mitya155 · Member ·

    I don’t have a selection for my Blogroll on the selection of widgets that you’re talking about! I’m trying to make a link to each post I put up and put it on the blogroll.

    So how do I get that Blogroll back into the sidebar?

    Please help.

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    ellaella · Member ·

    dracing – The blogroll widget is named Links, so just drag that where you want it and save your changes.

    In future, please start a thread about your problem; don’t hijack someone else’s.

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    senmcglinn · Member ·

    I have the same problem: I would like to add one widget (recent posts) to the sidebar, but if I do so the whole sidebar disappears. “The barbarian” suggests making an entire custom sidebar, but I do not know which available widgets make up the sidebar, or even if the standard sidebar is made up from the available widgets. It should be possible to add to the sidebar without obliterating it …

    Kyounkin4: if you just drag the button widget to one side and drop it, your standard sidebar will reappear with your data. Dracing, try the same

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    senmcglinn · Member ·

    Solved my own problem, and other people’s too I think. I dragged into the widget box , in order,
    recent posts
    recent comments
    calendar
    categories
    links (= blogroll)
    and hey presto: the standard sidebar is back with recent posts and recent comments on the top, AND now each post has a separate page with the comments below it, instead of one post following another like one of those (almost) endless scrolls of the Torah.

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    rideatmoonlight · Member ·

    It should be possible to add to the sidebar without obliterating it …

    Soory but that isn’t the case. Every theme that has widgets (note that some do not) has a default display arrangement of widgets in the sidebar. If you move even one widget then you override the default display and you must replace the widgets you choose to display in the order that you wish them to appear in the sidebar.

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