Title: Error: Please update Host Sidebar
Last modified: January 8, 2017

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# Error: Please update Host Sidebar

 *  Resolved [tavy87](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tavy87/)
 * (@tavy87)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-please-update-host-sidebar/)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tavy87/)
 * (@tavy87)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-please-update-host-sidebar/#post-8633213)
 * 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](https://wordpress.org/support/users/intoxstudio/)
 * (@intoxstudio)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-please-update-host-sidebar/#post-8634977)
 * 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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 * Last activity: [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-please-update-host-sidebar/#post-8634977)
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