Title: widgets placement
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# widgets placement

 *  [joanbell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joanbell/)
 * (@joanbell)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-placement/)
 * When I add more than 1 widget to a Global or Primary area of my site, it appears
   when I view the page – the next time I ‘view’ it, it has gone?
 * What am I missing here? and can someone explain what all the areas are – such
   as Primary, Secondary, etc. I know Global means it goes on every page. There 
   is no area that simply states “sidebar”
 * Thanks, Joan

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 *  [Pierrick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/artpie/)
 * (@artpie)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-placement/#post-2667842)
 * “Primary”, “Secondary” are widgets/areas slots within the sidebar(s). For example,
   the Primary slot is located in the single.php file, ie will only display on the
   posts page.
 * Make sure to “save” when you add a widget to any areas
 * P
 *  Thread Starter [joanbell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joanbell/)
 * (@joanbell)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-placement/#post-2667848)
 * Thanks Pierrick, however that still isn’t very clear to me.
 * As I said I added and saved the widgets to Global area and it displayed when 
   I viewed the site but the second time I viewed the site, the widget didn’t display
   and wasn’t in the Global area when I checked. I also tried to do this in the 
   Secondary area, same thing happened.
 * Very confusing. So when you say the posts page, do you mean the page that I have
   named “Blog”?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [joanbell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joanbell/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-placement/#post-2667848)
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