Error: Please update Host Sidebar

  • Resolved tavy87

    (@tavy87)


    9 years, 4 months ago

    When I switch themes and then switch back I get this error, assuming because the theme didn’t have those sidebar names. But I had thought switching back would solve the problem…

    I think going through and click UPDATE on every sidebar fixes it again and resets them properly. But it takes me so long to do, and I can’t test my themes back and forth if I have to do that every time. Is there a way to update all of the sidebars at once (assuming no settings changes)?

    Thanks

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  • Thread Starter tavy87

    (@tavy87)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    I’m still having issues.. It seems that the widgets within my sidebars have all disappeared and I didn’t notice… Even restoring my website and DB to 2 days ago didn’t solve the problem or bring them back. How can that be? Can switching themes back and forth cause the sidebars to get lost and not know which widgets were in which sidebar?

    Plugin Author Joachim Jensen

    (@intoxstudio)

    9 years, 4 months ago

    Thank you for reporting this.

    What are the names of the themes you are switching between?
    Can I ask more about your use case, e.g. why do you need to switch between the themes so often?

    The default behaviour in WordPress is that if you switch a theme, all widgets will become “inactive” and removed from the sidebars. But when you switch back to the first theme again, the widgets should reappear in the original sidebars.
    If your widgets don’t behave this way, I suspect one or more themes are changing this behaviour. In Content Aware Sidebars Pro widgets will remain in their sidebars on theme switch.

    In Content Aware Sidebars you’ll see “Please update Host Sidebar” because the sidebars in each theme doesn’t have the same ID, and therefore the plugin will think that the Host Sidebar has been removed. Currently there is no way to “bulk edit” the sidebars.

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