Uneditable Widgets when Them Changed

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  obamanager · Member · Dec 28, 2008 at 10:58 pm

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  I changed from the journalist v1.9 theme with 1 sidebar and 4 widgets to the Andreas 09 theme with widgets on left and right.

  I like the look of the change. But here’s the issue. in the admin panel when i go to edit a widget (add a link for instance), the widget page says i’m not using widgets. The Links widget is not addable and there are no links showing as being used. Thus, I can’t edit the widget nor can I remove the widget. And when I add a new widget, all the widgets i was using disappear.

  Any solutions?

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  obamanager · Member · Dec 28, 2008 at 11:01 pm

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  the url is http://obamanager.wordpress.com/

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  vivianpaige · Member · Dec 28, 2008 at 11:14 pm

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  This has come up a number of times recently. It seems that the answer is to change back to your old theme, remove all the widgets (saving text widget info to a text file before you delete them), switch to the new theme and re-add the widgets.

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  obamanager · Member · Dec 29, 2008 at 12:43 am

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  yep that worked. kind of messy solution. thanks

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  vivianpaige · Member · Dec 29, 2008 at 2:50 am

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  Glad to help. And please mark this thread resolved. Also, consider linking your user name to your blog as explained in the sticky, 8 Things, at the top of the forums. This will make it easier for us to help you in the future.