Posted 3 years ago #
Sorry for creating a new thread but I tried responding to an old one but I didn't get a reply. I am experiencing a problem with sidebar widgets disappearing. I have three enabled but only one shows up.
Since the problem started I have upgraded from 2.8 to 2.8.2, tried switching back to default theme and disabled/deleted plugins but nothing seems to have worked. I'd love some assistance with this one!
URL of your blog?
S.K
Posted 3 years ago #
Posted 3 years ago #
Bump. I can also confirm the problem exists after installing 2.8.4 (and deleting old source files during the install process)
Posted 3 years ago #
I was able to solve this problem on my own. It appeared that something had become corrupted in the database during upgrading versions of WordPress; most likely the wp_options table. I have seen many posts advising which database fields to edit and also a plugin which resets the widgets but none of these fixes worked for me. In the end I resolved the problem by importing my post, user and plugins data tables into a clean database from a fresh install (leaving the wp_options table) and exporting the SQL for import into the blog - this meant having to reconfigure some of the options that were originally stored in the wp_options table, but now the widgets behave as they should.
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