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  chrissyscraftroom · Member · Mar 13, 2017 at 9:52 am

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  I’m trying to use the Button 2 theme
  Doesn’t have option for Widgets in a sidebar – only give footers as options
  Can you help

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  galois · Member · Mar 13, 2017 at 9:59 am

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  No,

  Button 2 includes four widget areas: one optional Sidebar, and three Footer areas.

  https://wordpress.com/themes/button-2/

  (see the right sidebar in the demo–>https://button2demo.wordpress.com)

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  staff-loquaciousloon · Staff · Mar 13, 2017 at 5:54 pm

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  Hi @chrissyscraftroom!

  To add widgets to the sidebar, use the preview in Customizer to navigate to a page where the sidebar is used. Customizer only shows you the currently visible widget areas, so you can see what you’re doing as you do it :)

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  chrissyscraftroom · Member · Mar 14, 2017 at 2:15 am

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  thanks Chad – have opened customizer and then widgets and it still only give me footer options?? Sorry I’m new at this. And when I click on those little blue dots it doesn’t do anything. thanks for your help

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  staff-loquaciousloon · Staff · Mar 14, 2017 at 1:51 pm

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  Hey @chrissyscraftroom

  It looks like you’ve switched themes a few times since your last post, so things might be different now – you now have a sidebar area on your front page, so “Sidebar” should be an option when you first open the Customizer.

  The trick to finding missing widgets is that in the Customizer, you’ll only see the options for widgets that exist on the page you are currently viewing.

  So if your homepage doesn’t use your Sidebar, you won’t see Sidebar as an option. If you use the links in the site preview to click to a blog post (for example) that does use the sidebar, Sidebar will appear as an option.

  Basically – you can’t add widgets to a part of the site until you’re actually looking at it in the Customizer :)