Title: Cannot Add Widgets
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Cannot Add Widgets

 *  [myuzikal_flare](https://wordpress.org/support/users/myuzikal_flare/)
 * (@myuzikal_flare)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-add-widgets/)
 * I cannot re-add the widgets that I had previously removed.
    The ‘ADD’ link is
   no longer there.
 * In the Appearance>Widgets section, I used a widget called ‘Fun with Widget Structures’,
   which allows tabs in the sidebar. I added Recent Comments, Recent Posts, and 
   WP-Polls widgets to that Widget Structure.
 * When I removed the widget structure, I found I could not add the widgets that
   were in the widget structure back like normal. The ‘ADD’ link is no longer there.
   The system still thinks the widgets are being used because they show up under
   the ‘show used widgets’ filter.
 * I have tried deactivating all the relevant plugins but to no avail D:.
 * Does anyone have a solution?

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 *  [halm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/halm/)
 * (@halm)
 * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-add-widgets/#post-966133)
 * I might add that going from a theme with 2 widgeted sidebars to another with 
   only 1 can do the exact same thing 🙁
 *  Thread Starter [myuzikal_flare](https://wordpress.org/support/users/myuzikal_flare/)
 * (@myuzikal_flare)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-add-widgets/#post-966351)
 * yeah, you could argue that my tabbed-sidebar plugin added another widgeted sidebar
   🙁
    i’ve since removed that plugin though but the recent comments/posts widgets
   seem to have disappeared with it 🙁
 *  [dannydamnboy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dannydamnboy/)
 * (@dannydamnboy)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-add-widgets/#post-966353)
 * you could try with a clear installation of wordpress and then reactivate the 
   old database without the option setting
 *  [themeweaver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themeweaver/)
 * (@themeweaver)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-add-widgets/#post-966372)
 * same problem here…
    this is a big bad bug!
 *  [themeweaver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themeweaver/)
 * (@themeweaver)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-add-widgets/#post-966373)
 * I have tried everything…
    Cleaned out the options in the DB Clean install Turned
   off everything… still nothing…
 * Ask me somthing I have not done?
 *  [mondo2009](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mondo2009/)
 * (@mondo2009)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-add-widgets/#post-966374)
 * I believe there is a plugin called “reset widget”. You could try this. IMPORTANT:
   Back up all of you widget option settings, text etc because this will clear all
   of that out.
 *  [mondo2009](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mondo2009/)
 * (@mondo2009)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-add-widgets/#post-966375)
 * Correction…
 * The name of the plugin is Widgets Reloaded plugin
 *  [Diana Thompson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/likethegoddess/)
 * (@likethegoddess)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-add-widgets/#post-966435)
 * I found this thread while searching on a similar issue with the inability to 
   add widgets. I found that my previously used theme was still holding the widgets.
   So, my resolution was as simple as going back and removing them.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 8 replies
 * 6 participants
 * Last reply from: [Diana Thompson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/likethegoddess/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-add-widgets/#post-966435)
 * Status: not resolved

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