Import Posting Double

Hello,

When you view the widgets in Appearance > Widgets, are there multiple instances of each.

Which widgets are you using in your footer?

Are all widgets doubled or is it just the widgets in the footer?

Answering your questions in reverse order:

-Only the Footer Column widgets are doubled. The Sidebar widget is single.

-Using only ‘Text’ widgets in the Sidebar area + Footer Columns 1, 2, and 3.

-In Appearance > Widgets, there are only single instances of each ‘Text’ widget.

Here is a summary of the HTML in View Page Source:

<footer>

   <section id="text-2">
      …content…  //let's call this '<strong>A</strong>'
   </section>

   <section id="text-3">
      …content…   //duplicate of '<strong>A</strong>'
   </section>
-
   <section id="text-4">
      …content…  //let's call this '<strong>B</strong>'
   </section>

   <section id="text-4">
      …content…   //duplicate of '<strong>B</strong>'
   </section>
-
   <section id="text-5">
      …content…  //let's call this '<strong>C</strong>'
   </section>

   <section id="text-5">
      …content…   //duplicate of '<strong>C</strong>'
   </section>

</footer>

Thanks for the details.

If there are only single instances of the widgets showing in Appearance > Widgets then I am not sure what could be causing them to show double on your site. It’s possible there is a theme or plugin issue.

You could try deactivating all plugins and/or ask the theme author for their thoughts.

Also try deleting and manually re-adding the widgets to see if that clears it up in the footer.

This is a fresh install. “Widget Importer & Exporter” is the only active theme. Akismet is present, but not active.

As I mentioned, it’s a fresh install, with the “Widget Im/Ex” Import function run only once, so I don’t see how there could be additional widgets present that aren’t showing in admin.

I’ll ask the theme author if they wouldn’t mind reviewing this discussion thread.

Thanks for your attention on this. I’ll continue to plug away at it.

If you delete then manually re-add the widgets (not importing), does that clear up the duplication issue in the footer widget area?

Something else you could try is deleting them then reimporting to see if they double again or not. The widgets already imported will be detected and not imported a second time. Only those which are deleted will be imported.

After deleting, exporting, importing, double widgets again, re-deleting, re-exporting, and re-importing, it finally is rendering correctly. I’m not sure among all that activity what the actual fix turned out to be, but anyway, it’s working. Thanks for your help.

The inconsistency is strange but I am glad the result is good now.

I have not had other reports of this but will keep my eyes peeled in case there is a flaw with the plugin rather than this being one of those unexplained oddball glitches.

Let me know if it crops up again and we can troubleshoot some more.