Widgets in Sidebar erase previous Sidebar contents

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  stevebeigel · Member · Jun 14, 2008 at 7:20 pm

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  I’m using the Andreas04 theme. My site is http://stevebeigel.wordpress.com/.
  When I go to Design->Widgets, it says I’m not using any widgets. When I try to add one, it wipes out everything in the Sidebar that was previously there! I don’t see anyone else having this problem, so I must be a complete dunce. Help!

  – Steve

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  dlager · Member · Jun 14, 2008 at 8:49 pm

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  is the about page supposed to be published in the sidebar of Andreas4???

  Steve if your still having problems….

  trying going to manage—>pages
  and goto your “about” page.
  and change it to unpublished or draft (temporarily)
  then see if you can add widgets.

  maybe their is a problem with the theme.(??)

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  stevebeigel · Member · Jun 14, 2008 at 9:31 pm

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  The About page can be unpublished, but the About info stays on the front page. I didn’t put it there, it just happened with the theme.

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  dlager · Member · Jun 14, 2008 at 9:50 pm

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  I am guessing there is a prob with the theme
  I am getting the same result when i mess around with this theme.
  An about page strattles what is supposed to be two columns, and It wipes out any widgets other than a few.
  you could try to contact support (on monday-friday)

  if your in a hurry you could try another theme.

  I’ll tag this as a “bug”… maybe somebody else knows whats up with this.

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  stevebeigel · Member · Jun 14, 2008 at 9:53 pm

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  Thanks. I feel a little less stupid. The Sidebars seem to be located below the About info, where there are two columns of them. These are the ones that go bye-bye, whichever Sidebar I try to add a widget to.

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  dlager · Member · Jun 14, 2008 at 10:09 pm

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  yes this time i got it to work.
  this is a left over blog i use for messing around with tech experiments:
  (the content is just gibberish)

  http://dlager.wordpress.com/

  so i went to another theme. Then I switched back andreas4.
  I don’t know why but its working this time.

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  stevebeigel · Member · Jun 14, 2008 at 10:25 pm

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  Thanks, dlager. I will check it out later. I have to go out for the rest of the day (family commitments), but will try it when I get back.

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  stevebeigel · Member · Jun 15, 2008 at 2:02 pm

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  Dlager, I set up a test blog site and created a widget, then switched back and forth among different themes. No dice. The widget wipes out whichever sidebar it’s entered in (sidebar1, sidebar2). Theme didn’t seem to matter.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jun 15, 2008 at 2:14 pm

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  If you have not added widgets to the sidebar (default when you begin a blog) there is a sample set that is shown in the sidebar so you can see what it looks like. Once you add one widget under design > widgets, the sample set disappears and you have to add the widgets you want back into the sidebar manually.

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  stevebeigel · Member · Jun 15, 2008 at 2:43 pm

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  Sacred, you da man! Thanks. Though now I don’t think I’m a dunce – I’m sure of it!