Widgets causing other to sidebars to disappear

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The way widgets work is basically either/or. Either you have widgets on your sidebars or you have the hand-coded sidebar content.

BUT .. you can change that if you are so inclined. In your sidebar.php file, find this, at the bottom, before the closing </ul>:
<?php endif; ?>

Put anything that you want to stay on the sidebar, regardless of whatever plugins you choose, UNDER that piece of code and they’ll display AFTER the widgets you have selected.

sorry about that I didnt realize it. disregard my email and just post here so we all can learn. Thanks I’ll try that hope it works. If not i’ll be back lol

ok I did it. I inserted my code for the banner where you said and then I went to widgets and hit add. And now I do see the plugin and the banner. But now my box for pages, categories and archives disappeared? It was on the left side and those are gone only thing I see now since I added the widget plugin is the plugin and the banner. ??

ok nevermind, I got it now duh! Even though it showed page, archives and categories before I inserted other plugin widgets. After i did insert first plug widget I then had to go add widgets for those also the categories, archives and others. Thanks i resolved it

Most themes are designed with a default set of stuff in the sidebar. If you use widgets for the sidebar, then these replace that default set entirely. You will want to recreate the existing sidebar using the built in widgets.

Some newer themes don’t include a sidebar default set, just letting the user put in widgets. These are simpler to understand and less confusing.

yup thats what happened! Thanks Otto42 I was about 2 seconds ahead of ya. But now I got it thanks so much

Hi…

This sounds like I might be able to figure out a similar work around, but I’m a newbie to all this and need some clarification… I’m also having a disappearing widgets issue.

These are the widgets I have (those with “Add” I haven’t activated yet)…

Global Translator
HP-Buttons Add
Popularity Lists 1
Random Quote
Most Active Content Add
WP Opt-in Add
Highest Rated Add
Most Rated Add
Pages Add
Your blog’s WordPress Pages
Calendar Add
Archives
Links
Meta Add
Search Add
Recent Posts
Tag Cloud
Categories Add
Text Add
RSS Add
Recent Comments
Add to Any Subscribe
KB Countdown 1 Add
del.icio.us
Categories OR Pages Add
Akismet
Category Cloud Add

Some duplicate the functions of others, I realize. And not all of these are installed in the same sidebar. But something odd has happened.

At first, they all worked and showed up fine.

Then, in the left sidebar, some disappeared.

I have 9 widgets in that one sidebar (just trying them out to decide which to keep). Yet, on the page for managing widgets, where it still says I have 9… it only shows three of them.

And then it says…

%BEG_OF_TITLE%Most Popular:%END_OF_TITLE%

The rest neither show nor function.

I’m not sure what could have triggered that to happen. I did try to run something (another plugin) that was supposed to install the java for Google Analytics in each page. Maybe that broke something?

Still, I’d like to find a way to get rid of the widgets and just reinstall them more cautiously… but this error message blocks me from uninstalling them.

Is there a way to remove widgets from the php code by hand? Or maybe a way to deactivate them all and then turn them back on one by one?

Thanks in advance.

John F.

Update:

I went in to the plugin settings and disabled a few that seemed clearly for the sidebar (popular comments, etc). Then went back to the widget manager, and all was well. Google Analytics, also, seems to have nothing to do with it.

Now my only issue is with the otherwise great “Freshy2” template, which seems to be unable to delete “customary quicklinks” that I added and no longer want.

Ok, I applied the described above. Could modify the feedburner-code regarding the image in a way that it uses the RSS-gif my chosen theme is using.

But now it comes:

If I adding another text-widged (a ‘subscribe via email’ textbox by feedburner) the layout is not the same as my chosen theme. It looks ugly. How can this be solved?

Please help!