Title: Custom sidebar not working
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Custom sidebar not working

 *  [Kazek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kazek/)
 * (@kazek)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sidebar-not-working/)
 * Hi! I have problem with custom sidebars. I add them in Theme Options then I’m
   adding widgets (recent posts for a selected category). It worked for a long time,
   but now when I add new aidebars they don’t show what I’ve put in them (I mean
   widgets). What’s wrong?

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 *  [hannah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hannahritner/)
 * (@hannahritner)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sidebar-not-working/#post-5389873)
 * Hey, deactivating your plugins is always a good test. Is it letting you place
   it in the back end and just not showing on the front end? Can you post a link?
   
   Hannah
 *  Thread Starter [Kazek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kazek/)
 * (@kazek)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sidebar-not-working/#post-5389874)
 * No new plugins were installed lately. Yes, in back end everything looks ok, in
   front end there are different recent posts. The website is in Polish: [http://biegowkipodtatrami.pl/aktualnosci](http://biegowkipodtatrami.pl/aktualnosci)(
   category: “aktualności”, but recent posts from category “artykuły” even tho in
   widgets everything is set properly).
 *  [Ben Ritner – Kadence WP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/britner/)
 * (@britner)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sidebar-not-working/#post-5389955)
 * The page you linked to is a category page. Which defaults to use the primary 
   sidebar. So did you change the widget in the primary sidebar? Did you try adding
   a different widget?
 * Kadence Themes
 *  Thread Starter [Kazek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kazek/)
 * (@kazek)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sidebar-not-working/#post-5389963)
 * Well, the primary sidebar should show all posts anyway, so I guess the problem
   is somewhere else. I’ve also added another sidebar (Trasy) linking to recent 
   posts from another category, but it still links to different one (trasy turystyczne).
 *  [Ben Ritner – Kadence WP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/britner/)
 * (@britner)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sidebar-not-working/#post-5390045)
 * I guess I don’t understand, when I look at your site for example this page: [http://biegowkipodtatrami.pl/turbacz-przez-doline-lepietnicy/](http://biegowkipodtatrami.pl/turbacz-przez-doline-lepietnicy/)
   everything seems fine?
 * Kadence Themes
 *  Thread Starter [Kazek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kazek/)
 * (@kazek)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sidebar-not-working/#post-5390053)
 * The question is about category pages – if i have lets say “category 1” then i
   would like to have “category 1” sidebar on this category page with “category 
   1” recent posts. with posts sidebars work ok.
 *  [Ben Ritner – Kadence WP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/britner/)
 * (@britner)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sidebar-not-working/#post-5390057)
 * There isn’t a built in option for this theme to have different sidebars per category,
   but you can use a plugin like : [https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-logic/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget-logic/)
   
   To define which widget shows when.
 * Kadence Themes
 *  Thread Starter [Kazek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kazek/)
 * (@kazek)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sidebar-not-working/#post-5390060)
 * ok, understand. i just wonder how it happen that for most of categories it works
   fine.
 *  [Ben Ritner – Kadence WP](https://wordpress.org/support/users/britner/)
 * (@britner)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sidebar-not-working/#post-5390061)
 * Did you make a sidebar with the exact name of the category? That might work, 
   but it’s not designed that way.
 * Kadence Themes
 *  Thread Starter [Kazek](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kazek/)
 * (@kazek)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sidebar-not-working/#post-5390062)
 * Yes, I have repeated everything that’ve done before creating previous sidebars(
   that worked), but now it doesn’t work any more. Anyway, thanks for help.

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