Title: Lost Sidebars…
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Lost Sidebars…

 *  Resolved [donnaWPadmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donnawpadmin/)
 * (@donnawpadmin)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-sidebars/)
 * Somehow after updating WordPress to 4.3.1 and updating the plugin and the theme…
   ALL of my custom sidebars DISAPPEARED! I had like 30 of them. I have many backups,
   both database and files…can you please tell me where the actual sidebars /custom
   sidebar information is stored at so I can see if I can put it back. I went to
   Widgets and looked…they aren’t even listed anymore. If I start restoring stuff
   to try to get back sidebars, I lose a lot of more important information, but 
   it would take a LOOOONG time to attempt to recreate them. What I had was a gallery
   of individual personal profiles and each page with an individual’s biography 
   had it’s own sidebar…it’s a shame I have to go through this now. Any ideas…ANYBODY???
   please?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-sidebars/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-sidebars/)

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 *  Thread Starter [donnaWPadmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donnawpadmin/)
 * (@donnawpadmin)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-sidebars/#post-6574334)
 * I should have mentioned my theme is a childtheme from Catch Everest by catch 
   themes.
 *  Thread Starter [donnaWPadmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donnawpadmin/)
 * (@donnawpadmin)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-sidebars/#post-6574356)
 * Well it sure pays to have backups, that’s all I can say!! No responses yet…but
   if anyone is interested…I had a backup database in my phpmyadmin since before
   all the updates…and I found my sidebars in the options table, with an option_name
   of cs_sidebars. Somehow the row got deleted in the new database after the updates…
   so I checked the option_id (searched for it) and since it didn’t exist, and since
   it wasn’t there when I sorted by name in alphabetical order, I copied the option
   from the old database to the new one. Voila! All my sidebars are back! (I really
   didn’t want to do research on 30 individuals’ social media internet information
   again…it took weeks to acquire originally!)
 * My sidebars still aren’t showing up on the posts…but I figure it’s easier to 
   load each post and switch out the sidebar than it would be find that in the database…
   so moving forward…> (thanks for reading…maybe this will help someone in the future)

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 * Last reply from: [donnaWPadmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/donnawpadmin/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-sidebars/#post-6574356)
 * Status: resolved