Sidebar Disappeared

Hi @jennjoanne,

Go to Appearance → Widgets and make sure you still have widgets set to the “Sidebar” widget area.

— Anders

Thank you for getting back to me! My widgets were still underneath the “Sidebar” widget area. I even tried removing them and adding them back one at a time and they still won’t show up.

I went to Appearance, Customize….so I could see if it said anything in the Widget area and it says this…..

“Your theme has 1 other widget area, but this particular page doesn’t display it.

You can navigate to other pages on your site while using the Customizer to view and edit the widgets displayed on those pages.”

I went to multiple pages and it still said those words above.

It looks like you’ve made some modifications to the theme. If you’re running a child theme, try deactivating it (and only run Hemingway directly) and see if that fixes it. If you’ve made the changes directly to Hemingway, it’s possible that one of those changes have broken the sidebar display.

I think Anders is pointing you in the right direction. Out of curiosity (and to learn something), I compared your ../themes/hemingway-child/style.css, which seems to be a cloned and modified version of the main Hemingway stylesheet, with Hemingway’s main theme style sheet ../themes/hemingway/style.css. There are differences in the Sidebar section (among others). Your child theme style.css states it is version 1.47. My main theme version is 2.1.1, implying that your child stylesheet might be out-of-date and in need of some updating.

• This reply was modified 3 years ago by kwbrayton.

Anders – I haven’t made changes to my theme in over two years, besides going to Appearance, Customize, Additional CSS. And I removed all of the CSS I had added through that area, and it still wasn’t working. But then kwbrayton mentioned that my child theme version was outdated so I went and switched back to Hemingway – not the child theme one, and it worked! Thank you all so much for all of your help! It is greatly appreciated!!