Title: Sidebar missing after editing
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Sidebar missing after editing

 *  Resolved [critter183](https://wordpress.org/support/users/critter183/)
 * (@critter183)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-missing-after-editing/)
 * I just edited the sidebar on my blog, saved changes and viewed site. My sidebar
   is missing from view. When I try to edit it in Theme Editor, sidebar.php shows
   up as a blank page, yet when I check sidebar.php with a text editor it contains
   everything it should contain. I am using the classic theme and version 1.5.2
 * Any clues?
 * Thanks,
 * Jim
 * Edited to add:
 * When I FTPed the saved sidebar.php onto my computer to view the file in a text
   editor, it did not have the changes I had made. I had simply renamed an image,
   but the old name was written to the file. So, no change was saved. Permissions
   are set at 666, the same as all of the other files, and those still show up in
   the Theme Editor.
 * Also, I tried using a sidebar.php from another install using classic theme, and
   it too doesn’t display.

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 *  [stonegatherer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stonegatherer/)
 * (@stonegatherer)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-missing-after-editing/#post-336244)
 * I can’t help without the url.
 *  Thread Starter [critter183](https://wordpress.org/support/users/critter183/)
 * (@critter183)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-missing-after-editing/#post-336247)
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 * Thanks. 🙂
 *  [stonegatherer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stonegatherer/)
 * (@stonegatherer)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-missing-after-editing/#post-336249)
 * I am going to take a guess that some how your “body” has gotten to wide, or possibly
   the restthisspace image is
    doing it? Try reducing the banner size, 728 X 90 
   is not a normal size.
 *  Thread Starter [critter183](https://wordpress.org/support/users/critter183/)
 * (@critter183)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-missing-after-editing/#post-336250)
 * It worked fine until I tried to change that image name in sidebar template.
 * Anyway, I took that banner out completely just now, and it is still tweaked. 
   No sidebar, and sidebar template refuses to show up in theme editor.
 * I put the banner back in just now, since that made no difference.
 * Thanks for looking though. This is weird.
 *  Thread Starter [critter183](https://wordpress.org/support/users/critter183/)
 * (@critter183)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-missing-after-editing/#post-336251)
 * OK, this may be a clue…
 * I opened sidebar template in theme editor and it was blank. I typed “help me”
   onto the blank template and saved it. I viewed site and at bottom of page was“
   Help me”.
 * I downloaded sidebar.php and opened it in text editor and it still showed the
   full sidebar.php file.
 * Is there voodoo happening here?
 * LMAO!
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-missing-after-editing/#post-336255)
 * Idle curiosity question: are you positive you’re opening the right “sidebar.php”
   file, and not one from some other theme folder?
 *  Thread Starter [critter183](https://wordpress.org/support/users/critter183/)
 * (@critter183)
 * [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-missing-after-editing/#post-336261)
 * yes, I’m sure. I have only two theme folders. Something is funky on my server.
   What I did was copy and paste from my text editor to the blank sidebar template
   in Theme Editor, and it took. Sidebar is back.
 * But now I have issue with an image not showing, no matter what I do, what I name
   it, what program I create it with, no matter which FTP client I use to upload
   it, and even when I host it from another domain of mine. It won’t even show when
   address is typed into browser.
 * Someone has been friggin with the riggin. lol

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [critter183](https://wordpress.org/support/users/critter183/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebar-missing-after-editing/#post-336261)
 * Status: resolved

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