Widgets Not Working Correctly

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  wweadam · Member · Dec 28, 2008 at 1:16 am

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  There is an error with all my widgets. My side bar is completely empty besides the default widgets for the theme I customized. I tried pressing save with the blank sidebar options in the dashboard like normal, but the widgets didn’t show up.

  I go to, “Show used widgets” and it shows all of my old widgets as being used, yet they aren’t. Help get them back on display for my site?

  http://wweadam.com

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  beemeister · Member · Dec 28, 2008 at 1:18 am

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  Have you changed your theme recently?

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  wweadam · Member · Dec 28, 2008 at 1:29 am

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  Yes that’s the issue. I changed themes, normally I can just press save changes and they’ll show up.. but the widgets are still on the widgets being used, but not on my sidebar editor or the site itself.

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  wweadam · Member · Dec 28, 2008 at 1:35 am

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  Apologies, found the answer to this in the widgets section.

  I’ll go back to my old theme, remove all widgets and add them back from the unused widgets section.

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  beemeister · Member · Dec 28, 2008 at 1:45 am

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  Very good. I was just going to tell you to do that!

  Rule of thumb when switching themes is to save all text widgets to Text files on your desktop, disable all widgets, change themes, and then re-enable widgets in the new theme, adding back the text code from the text files on your desktop.