Widgets moving to different sidebars without warning

  • David Borrink

    (@davidborrink)


    8 years ago

    Very weird behavior this morning. All of a sudden, I’ve had widgets move to different sidebars without warning. It might be because we had the Social Warfare Pro plugin cause problems (with many people, I’ve learned).

    We move them back, but what would cause widgets to suddenly move elsewhere?

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  • Moderator bcworkz

    (@bcworkz)

    8 years ago

    Widget locations are stored in options, then loaded into the global $_wp_sidebars_widgets variable. Errant code that’s attempting to manipulate this data can easily corrupt widget location data if not well written. There should be no reason to directly manipulate this data, but some coders like to think doing so is more efficient. It is, until they break something.

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