One of the footer widget areas does not show any widgets!
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Hi, folks. The Motif theme I’m using has three widget areas in the footer. No matter what I do, I cannot seem to get any widgets to appear in that third area.
Right now, my donate button and follow button are placed in my “Third Footer Sidebar” but they appear in the “Second Footer Sidebar.” I have deleted and added these and other widgets over and over to test this — that Third Footer Sidebar is dead to me, or I am dead to it! Any ideas?
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Hi,
Do you have content in each the first two footer sidebars? If there is nothing in the second, for example, it stands to reason that widgets in the third area would appear where widgets in the the second area would appear were there content in that area. -
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Right now, my donate button and follow button are placed in my “Third Footer Sidebar”…
The content of the third widget area is displaying correctly. It’s the content of one of the others that is not displaying. What widgets do you have in the second footer widget area?
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You are seeing content in the third footer widget area? That completely stumps me, because I am not able to get any content to appear there. No matter what widgets I put in the three footer areas, they all clump up in First Footer Sidebar and Second Footer Sidebar. What content are you seeing in the Third Footer widget area? Thanks!
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Let me clarify that point. Properly activated widgets placed in the first footer widget area appear in the left column of the footer area. Widgets in the second footer widget area would normally appear in a second column to the right of the first, and widgets in the third footer widget area would appear in a third column to the right of both the first and second footer widget areas. You are correct to expect this.
The fact that widgets placed in the third area are instead displaying in the second or middle column doesn’t indicate that those widgets are displaying in the wrong widget area. I’ve never once see that occur. What it does indicate is that (presuming the widgets in the first footer widget area are displaying correctly) no widgets are displaying in the second widget area. Therefore, the third widget area displays in the second column, rather than the third as it would if there were widgets in the second widget area displaying.
Why aren’t widgets in the second widget area displaying? Two possible reasons:
1. There are no widgets activated in the area.
2. In some cases a widget might not appear if you don’t have a required account with a specific service to be connected to through the widget. For example, even though I don’t have a Goodreads, Instagram, or Facebook account, a notice will display indicating that some action needs to be taken before the widget will display. However, the Eventbrite: Event Calendar/Listing will not display any notice if you haven’t an Eventbrite account.So, on the Motif theme, if I place an Eventbrite widget (for example) in the second widget area, but I have no Eventbrite account, the second widget area will remain vacant. Consequently, the third footer widget area will appear where the second footer widget area normally would, in the middle column.
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Thanks for your answer! But that isn’t it.
Like you, I have never known this to happen. In my years of working with WP, I have always been able to count on any widget displaying exactly where I put it.
I have four widgets in use, none tied to an inactivated service. There is at least one widget placed in each of the three footer widget areas.
All are displaying properly…but not in the area I placed them in!
This is driving me nuts.
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What widget or widgets are in the second footer widget area? And in the first? You’ve already told me what widgets you had in the third, though I don’t see the Follow button there anymore.
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I see the following displayed in two footer widget areas:
1st footer widget area
* Facebook Likes widget in the first (leftmost) footer widget area
Next footer widget area
* Paypal Donate button
* Amazon message (not sure if this is a widget, or part of another widget)
* Milestone widget or something similar -
As a controlled experiment, I put the same plain-old-vanilla image widget — one in the first area, one in the second area, one in the third area. And I put the column number as the title of each.
As you can see, the third column is still dead to our efforts. The widget in area three is popping over into the lower part of the first column.
Thanks for continuing to try to solve this with me. Any more ideas? I think I’m going to put in a ticket at support, because it’s so odd that I’m really starting to think it’s a little bug in the theme. Again, thanks for your interest!
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The widget in area three is popping over into the lower part of the first column.
Very odd. No, I don’t have any other ideas at the moment. I’ll tag the topic for staff attention. Please wait for staff to respond.
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This custom CSS seems to be the culprit:
.footer-widgets { background-color: white; padding-top: 10px; padding-left: 10px; }The padding-left adds an extra 10px to the total footer-widget width. If you’re going to do that, you’ll want to make the footer-widgets 10px narrower than the default 320, like so:
.footer-widgets { width: 310px; background-color: white; padding-top: 10px; padding-left: 10px; }Give that a shot and let us know if you need more help!
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Brilliant! Thank you! I’m trying to remember why I ever changed that css right there — whatever the reason, it sure wasn’t worth it!
Note to self: make better notes to self next time. :)
Again, thanks a bunch!
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