• gregjones94

    (@gregjones94)


    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)

    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)

    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)

    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)

    Doing so now.

    Thread Starter gregjones94

    (@gregjones94)

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

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    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)

    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)

    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)

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

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