Title: sidebar.php not updating after adding widgets
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# sidebar.php not updating after adding widgets

 *  [10dolla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/10dolla/)
 * (@10dolla)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebarphp-not-updating-after-adding-widgets/)
 * Okay I’m using the Cutline-1.4-3ColumnRight theme and this theme initially comes
   with a couple of widgets written into the sidebar.php file. I think it has the
   Search, Recent Entries, Archives, Categories, and Meta widgets as the default
   widgets.
 * I want to redistribute these widgets among the two sidebars. For example, I think
   it initially has the Meta widget in the right sidebar and I would like to move
   it into the left side bar. Being somewhat unfamiliar with php files I decided
   to use wordpress’s appearance menu to redistribute the widgets.
 * I want to note that when I initially went to the widgets menu there weren’t any
   widgets listed in the menu as having been added, even though they’re listed in
   the sidebar.php files. After redistributing the widgets the way I wanted they
   function on the page fine, BUT the sidebar.php file is not updated in the theme
   folder to reflect the added widgets.
 * Is the sidebar.php file supposed to be updated when you add widgets? Or is adding
   widgets via the appearance menu independent of the sidebar.php file in my theme
   folder?
 * This is a problem because I want the search widget to be the first widget on 
   my lefthand sidebar, but the search widget as added via the widget menu doesn’t
   have a title, so I wanted to go into the sidebar.php file and add one manually..
   but if the file isn’t updated to reflect the widgets I’ve added I don’t know 
   how to change it…
 * Any help with this would be much appreciated!
    Thanks!
 * -10dolla

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 *  Thread Starter [10dolla](https://wordpress.org/support/users/10dolla/)
 * (@10dolla)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebarphp-not-updating-after-adding-widgets/#post-1046716)
 * bump?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebarphp-not-updating-after-adding-widgets/#post-1046733)
 * > Is the sidebar.php file supposed to be updated when you add widgets?
 * Depends on the theme. My guess is that you’ll need to edit the sidebar files 
   manually to redistribute the various menu sub-sections.
 *  [fcgrabo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fcgrabo/)
 * (@fcgrabo)
 * [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebarphp-not-updating-after-adding-widgets/#post-1046883)
 * I’m running Cutline 3-column-split v1.4-3 and I just can’t get a text widget 
   to save to the right sidebar, regardless if I enable accessibility mode.
 * I wonder if this is a problem with the theme or WP 2.9.1.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [fcgrabo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fcgrabo/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebarphp-not-updating-after-adding-widgets/#post-1046883)
 * Status: not resolved

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