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1. portermonkey
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I just went through a domain name change and did the adjustments in my database and all my widgets are gone. My plugins are still there but all the text widgets I made are gone.
   new site

   Is there someplace these got stored or in the file manager that would help me not to rebuild them all?

   thanks

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Assuming you restored an amended database backup, are you using exactly the same theme. Widgets are stored on a per theme basis.

3. portermonkey
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I think so. I have a twenty ten child theme. all my modifications came through that were on my child. I did have to change the background color and the header image back and that was it besides the widgets.

4. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   If you had to change the background color and the header image, then it sounds like your theme mods may have gone from your database.

5. portermonkey
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   no, all my theme mods are fine.
   I had most of the html for my text widgets backed-up so i do not have a lot of work to recreate them.

   I should be fine.

   Thanks again for your help "theme diva"!
   much appreciated!

6. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Sorry - by "theme mods", I meant that the theme specific modifications (like background, header & widgets) in the database have been lost.

7. portermonkey
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   then yes I guess those have been gone from the database or misdirected.

   I have already pretty much rebuilt all my widgets so I am good.

   But if you would like me to try something for the sake of others coming across this issue and need documentation of my scenario, no problem.

8. tmuka
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I ran into this issue after I did a find/replace of my domain name and path in the db. The reason i've discovered is that since widget (and other) options can be stored as php serialized strings, changing the length of the strings in the data breaks the unserialize process and the widgets no longer have valid settings arrays.

   In my case it was easier to manually setup the widget again than it was to fix the issue by taking the original db backup, php unserializing the widget options strings, updating the php objects, reserialzing, and putting them back in the sql dump.

   Hope this is informative!

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