Header Ads Widget Has Vanished

I have solved the problem!

The culprit was the ABP AdBlock Plus Firefox plugin. To solve this issue – click the option drop-down on the ABP icon (in the browser window) and make sure that you have disabled it on the site you are working on – kind of obvious I know but I did not expect it to disable the actual available widgets in the WP dashboard.

Disabling the ABP will re-instate your Header and Footer widgets ??

Would be nice to fix this in the theme so that abp would not recognize this as an ad widget. Could be used for other content other than ads.

I think I managed to allow this to display even if you have adblock on.

Copy the header.php file into your child theme.

Change:

<div id="header-ads">

to:

<div id="header-widget">

Then add this to your child/custom css:

#header-widget { float: right; }
#header-widget h3 { display: none; }
#header-widget img { display: block; }

Just to clarify, this allows the actual widget to display for visitors that have adblock on. (I guess, unless you actually put ad code in there.)

You will still need to disable adblock on your own browser to view the widget editor in the backend.

That’s a nice fix. I think the author should be careful not to compete with the development of this browser addon.

Thanks Andrew, I agree with you about the author making changes. I’m personally not using it for ads, so I think if you’re not using ads there, my code should be enough of a fix.