Custom sidebars lost information

If this is part of the same problem – keeping it in one thread is probably better and less confusing to people helping.

Understood, figured it was separate since it was my trying to fix the other problem that I believe caused the problem.

Well kinda, but I’m just wondering what caused all this in the first place? And then what did you do? And how were these sidebars set up – they’re usually widgets – have you looked there?

Yes they are setup as widgets.

In the process of trying to recover from the Front Page freeze due to Total cache on the root site (Mainrecycling is an add-on site on our vps) I updated the 2010 theme to 1.6, reverted to 1.5 and did an automatic reinstall of wp 3.6. (Header, Footer, and CSS are modified)

In the process somewhere and not sure but probably before the update actions I deactivated all plugins and reactivated them.

I discovered the lost custom sidebar data after the deactivation of the cache. the current sidebar content is in the Primary Widget Area and was unaffected. We are using this currently for all pages other than https://mainrecycling.com/coupon8371/ for demonstration purposes.

Full plugin list:
plugins/backupwordpress/
plugins/better-wp-security/
plugins/custom-sidebars/
plugins/duplicate-post/
plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/
plugins/google-sitemap-generator/
plugins/insert-javascript-css/
plugins/ultimate-tinymce/
plugins/use-google-libraries/
plugins/user-role-editor/
plugins/wordfence/
plugins/wordpress-seo/

Thanks all for looking at my issues. Best thing about WP community