recent post widget will not show up on any theme

how many recent posts are in your site?

have you tried to deactivate all other plugins to see if that solves the problem?

there are no posts, i’m trying to build the page & it won’t show up at all no matter where i put it in the sidebar or which sidebar i use. i’ve tried to put it on there when i had no plugins yet & after putting the plugins on. also i did upgrade all of my older blogs to the new wp version 3.2.1 & all of those recent posts stayed right where they are. i have tried just about everything. as i mentioned, i’m building this site just like i’ve built every other site.? thanks for the idea

there are no posts,

so where is the problem?

why would a recent post widget show if there are no posts?

it is actually programmed this way – not to show at all if there are no recent posts;
in /wp-includes/default-widgets.php from line 540:

$r = new WP_Query(array('posts_per_page' => $number, 'no_found_rows' => true, 'post_status' => 'publish', 'ignore_sticky_posts' => true));
		if ($r->have_posts()) :

the title that i give the widget has always showed when i am making a site whether i had any posts in it or not. it’s a new site so i have never had any posts in there when making one in the beginning & configuring everything. i do not know code but i can see where there is some kind of command for it, i believe you in what it means.
i have just never had this happen before, i remember doing a site that i had to stop on before installing any info & that one didn’t have any posts on it for over a week but the title bar still showed where i put the widget.
i will try to put a test post in to see if it fixes it. hopefully that will help, thanks for the info.

ok, thank you very much! that worked & now i feel dumb lol. but like i said, it hasn’t happened before & i’ve made tons of wp sites. don’t know but now it’s there so i’m good.
thanks again