why widget remove when we select new theme?

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  kundangtest · Member · Jan 20, 2014 at 11:16 am

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  many time i have try to add new theme but when i have add new theme, the setting of older theme and selective widgets in sidebar has changed.
  why are widgets remove in sidebar when we select new theme?

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  hfzrhmn · Member · Jan 20, 2014 at 11:21 am

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  Technically, it’s because the new theme do not have the same Widget area compared to the old theme. Some theme might not even have sidebars to begin with, so preserving the widgets won’t make sense.

  However your widgets aren’t gone; they’re merely inactivated and you can re-add them again. See here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/#adding-widgets

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  kundangtest · Member · Jan 20, 2014 at 12:15 pm

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  but also used widgets are added many time in inactive widgets. whenever you add new theme, your previous theme sidebar widgets are add in inactive widget. and also i have again add this in new sidebar, they didn’t remove to inactive widget area.