how do I change the order of widgets

Go to appearance >> widgets you see “current widgets” on the right.

drug them up and down. Just move around.

Hi, Thats the easy part but why don’t the widgets appear in the same order on the site
Cheers

If you are using the widgets in Admin/Appearance/Widgets, the order on that page will reflect the order on your site. If you are not using these widgets, what you may be seeing is the default sidebar content without widgets.

Hi, esmi, thanks for that. The issue was lot deeper than that in which the widgets didn’t appear on the site in the order they were on the set-up page. They just keep re-arranging themselves.

I did solve this and for the benefit on of anyone else tearing their hair out and looking for the solutions. This was the scenario:

Widgets not appearing in the order as programmed:
Eventually after a very long time I found the problem was only with Firefox. No issue on IE or Google Chrome. The fix was pretty easy in the end. Just cleared ALL cache, cookies and browser history. Problem Solved

Thanks
Mark