Plugins and widgets aren't working

  • gregjones94

    (@gregjones94)


    15 years ago

    Hi,

    I am kinda new to the whole wordpress scene. I was asked to install and design a skin for wordpress for the first time and everything has gone ok so far except for the fact that when I try to install widgets they don’t appear in my sidebar code and therefor don’t show up. This is concerning for two reasons.

    1) I really need widgets on this blog
    2) I really need widgets on this blog. (lol)

    http://blog.groupideo.com is the website I am working on and this is my sidebar code.

    [Code moderated as per the Forum Rules. Please use the pastebin]

    Currently archives is the only widget I have that works and that is because I put the code in manually.

    Anyone know what the issue may be? I appreciate anyone that tries to help.

    Thanks

    Greg Eyton-Jones

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    15 years ago

    try:

    -deactivating ALL plugins temporarily to narrow down and possibly fix the problem. If the problem goes away, activate them individually (one-by-one) to find the problematic plugin.

    -switching to the default theme (“twentyten”) for a moment by renaming your current theme’s folder in wp-content/themes. The idea is to force WordPress to fall back to the default theme to rule out any theme-specific issue.

    – resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause problems (because the hooks remain unless plugins completely removed).

    Thread Starter gregjones94

    (@gregjones94)

    15 years ago

    When I deactivated all the plugins and widgets, my archive widget stays on the page and doesn’t go away…. could you possibly take a look at the code http://pastebin.com/whXkJzeS to see if you can see a problem

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    15 years ago

    1. my suggestion was to deactivate plugins only, not plugins and widgets.

    2. If the first step did not help, have you tried switching to the default theme?

    Thread Starter gregjones94

    (@gregjones94)

    15 years ago

    Doing so now.

    Thread Starter gregjones94

    (@gregjones94)

    15 years ago

    Yea, it works when I switch back to regular wordpress theme

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    15 years ago

    Yea, it works when I switch back to regular wordpress theme

    This means your other theme is either broken or incopatible with WP 3.1.2

    Thread Starter gregjones94

    (@gregjones94)

    15 years ago

    Even when I copy the code from the current stock themes sidebar and paste it into my other sidebar code it still doesn’t seem to work. 🙁

    Thread Starter gregjones94

    (@gregjones94)

    15 years ago

    Any ideas? And why is it that it is not compatible. I’ve just designed it and I really don’t want to have to re-design it…

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    15 years ago

    Every theme is different. directly copying code from one theme and paste it into another theme may not work.

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