Title: Modmat sidebar mods – widgets
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Modmat sidebar mods – widgets

 *  Resolved [ChristineB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christineb/)
 * (@christineb)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modmat-sidebar-mods-widgets/)
 * This is my very first WP blog, just installed today, but I’ve been blogging for
   many years.
 * I like this theme a lot and just started adding some widgets and then found that
   the widget title font changed for the new widgets and the existing widgets disappeared.
 * Deleted my widgets and the default widgets were back and with the right font 
   for the title.
 * Do I have to manually add additional widgets to the sidebar template or how do
   I make mods to the sidebars?
 * Thanks,
 * Christine

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 *  Thread Starter [ChristineB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christineb/)
 * (@christineb)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modmat-sidebar-mods-widgets/#post-815169)
 * I also noticed that the default widgets in the theme don’t show up as installed
   widgets.
 * “You are using 0 widgets in the “Sidebar 1″ sidebar.”
 *  [chrismou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrismou/)
 * (@chrismou)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modmat-sidebar-mods-widgets/#post-815200)
 * Hi Christine
 * Ive seen the theme in action on a couple of sites and I see what you mean – I
   hadn’t noticed the difference in header sizes up to now.
 * I’ll get that fixed and upload the updated files – as soon as I can work out 
   how to upload new versions of a theme to this site! 😉
 * Your second point is normal behaviour. The “default widgets” aren’t really widgets
   are such – I’ve manually added them into the code as an example, and for people
   who can’t be bothered adding their own! As soon as you add a widget, the my default“
   widgets” will no longer show.
 * Hope this is some help!
    Chris
 *  [k8cpa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/k8cpa/)
 * (@k8cpa)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modmat-sidebar-mods-widgets/#post-815374)
 * question about this theme…. does it have truly 2 columns for widgets?
 * If so, I’d like to use it.
 * -Chuck
 *  [k8cpa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/k8cpa/)
 * (@k8cpa)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modmat-sidebar-mods-widgets/#post-815418)
 * I tried your theme…. one problem I had with it, the columns, especially the last
   one to the right were too narrow. The whole theme needs to be wider, especially
   the sidebars.
 * Other than that. the theme looks great.
 * -Chuck
 * I have a wide display here. 1280×800 here. Wider columns please.
 *  [chrismou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrismou/)
 * (@chrismou)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modmat-sidebar-mods-widgets/#post-815422)
 * Hi Chuck
 * Thanks for trying out the theme! Unfortunately, resizing the columns would require
   redrawing the background images so its not something I could easily introduce
   into Modmat. I will bear your feedback in mind for future designs though 😉
 *  Thread Starter [ChristineB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christineb/)
 * (@christineb)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modmat-sidebar-mods-widgets/#post-815442)
 * Chris, thanks much! I downloaded your update from your site.
 * Have to say that I really like your theme and WP in general. It’s the most intuitive
   blogging software I’ve used yet.
 * One thing I couldn’t figure out yet is how I can find out about future theme 
   updates here, is there any way to subscribe?
 *  [chrismou](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chrismou/)
 * (@chrismou)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modmat-sidebar-mods-widgets/#post-815455)
 * Hi Christine
 * I don’t think theres a way of subscribing at the moment, but as this part of 
   the WordPress.org site (extend – themes) is relatively new, I assume it will 
   improve over time.
 * I think I read on a blog post that there was talk of the WordPress software making
   you aware of updates, much in the same way it does with plugins now, but I imagine
   this is just an idea for the future…
 *  Thread Starter [ChristineB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christineb/)
 * (@christineb)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/modmat-sidebar-mods-widgets/#post-815456)
 * Ok, I’ll just have to check back here occasionally, thanks so much for your help!

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