Text Widgets disappeared

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  prairiefrogs · Member · May 5, 2011 at 5:10 am

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  Hello. When I checked on my blog today I was stunned at the changed appearance. All my text widgets had vanished. I use text widgets for things like my avatar and several graphical widgets and many other things and they are what makes my blog look like “mine”. Other widgets stayed… but not any “text” widgets with HTML code.

  I hadn’t been using the dashboard at all, so I can’t imagine what happened. Any assistance would be appreciated. I can redo the widgets, but I’d like to know how to prevent this next time. It took quite a bit of time getting them “just so”.

  I’m using the “pool” theme, and my blog is here: http://prairiefrogs.wordpress.com/

  Thanks so much for any insights.

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  prairiefrogs · Member · May 5, 2011 at 5:31 am

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  I’m working from a cached page and recreating them and they seem to be staying put for the moment. I’ll finish replacing them in the morning. I’d still appreciate help with future prevention as it’s a bit pesky to re-do the widgets, but I’ll be able to recreate.

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 5, 2011 at 5:42 am

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  On the widgets page, look down at the bottom and see if they are in the “inactive” widgets area.

  Did you by chance change themes lately?

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  prairiefrogs · Member · May 5, 2011 at 3:37 pm

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  No they weren’t in the inactive area either, unfortunately.

  I changed themes a month ago, right before creating all the text widgets. I’d not changed themes since putting up the widgets though.

  This morning the two widgets I’d recreated last night were still there, so I’ve put all the others back up.

  I’m still perplexed about what happened. But will hope it stays for now. I’ve also put the coding for my widgets into a document for future reference should it happen again.

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 5, 2011 at 5:09 pm

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  I would contact staff and let them dig into it a little. They have logs so they should be able to trace things back.

  You don’t have another admin on your blog do you?

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  prairiefrogs · Member · May 5, 2011 at 8:35 pm

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  Thanks, I’ll give them a heads up. I”m the only admin on my blog.

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 5, 2011 at 8:53 pm

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  One thing I’ve always done is to keep the contents of text widgets saved in a plain text file on my computer just in case something happens.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · May 6, 2011 at 4:01 pm

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  Here’s a cached version of your blog, with the widgets still there:
  http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=cache:http://prairiefrogs.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/please-hold-while-i-have-flashbacks/&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

  You can select View Source from the menu bar of your browser and copy the code of your text widgets.

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  engshoeb · Member · May 8, 2011 at 2:36 am

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  yes some time this problem come but not all time i am using text widget but not all working out of 5. two text widget are working. It’s not a matter try others