Title: Widgets not working and code errors
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# Widgets not working and code errors

 *  [Reviewster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reviewster/)
 * (@reviewster)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-not-working-and-code-errors/)
 * Hello all..
 * I was hoping that one of the kindly volunteers here can help me. I’ve been having
   some problems loading my widgets, and tried to solve the issue(s) myself. However,
   I reached an impasse once I seen what I was up against.
 * Looking into the wp-admin.php file, I seen that I had a lot of error codes; one
   in particular seems to be particularly troublesome:
 * Timestamp: 3/3/2013 2:56:41 PM
    Error: The character encoding of the HTML document
   was not declared. The document will render with garbled text in some browser 
   configurations if the document contains characters from outside the US-ASCII 
   range. The character encoding of the page must be declared in the document or
   in the transfer protocol. Source File: [http://reviewster.org/wp-config.php](http://reviewster.org/wp-config.php)
   Line: 0:
 * Can someone please assist me in figuring out what exactly is wrong here? I would
   certainly appreciate the effort.
 * As I have copied that, and as I type this, all my plugins are turned OFF. My 
   blog is [http://reviewster.org](http://reviewster.org)

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 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-not-working-and-code-errors/#post-3524048)
 * You can’t check a php file with a html validator.
 * Your site does have errors as shown here, [http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3a%2f%2freviewster.org%2fheartoftheswarm%2f](http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3a%2f%2freviewster.org%2fheartoftheswarm%2f)
   mostly minor.
 * The widget problem. Please explain what is happening.
 *  Thread Starter [Reviewster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reviewster/)
 * (@reviewster)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-not-working-and-code-errors/#post-3524103)
 * Sure, and ty for your timely reply! 🙂
 * There are two distinct issues, which I suspect are inter-related. First, the 
   Main and Showcase Sidebar widgets aren’t updating at all (even after saving any
   changes); the only area that seems to be functional is the footer areas.
 * Secondly, I cannot get most of the widgets (the standard ones that came with 
   the WP install) to work/show on the page, even in the footer sections.
 * I have tried on multiple browsers and cleared my cache, but still no result.
 * Hope that clears some things up…

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 * Last reply from: [Reviewster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reviewster/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-not-working-and-code-errors/#post-3524103)
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