Title: plugin breaks customizer
Last modified: July 25, 2020

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# plugin breaks customizer

 *  Resolved [m-alo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/m-alo/)
 * (@m-alo)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaks-customizer-3/)
 * With this plugin activated, the customizer shows up blank.
    With this plugin 
   deactivated the customizer works just fine. Even when this plugin is the only
   active plugin it breaks the customizer. What to do?

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 *  [mcxg46](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcxg46/)
 * (@mcxg46)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaks-customizer-3/#post-13203686)
 * Hi,
 * I came here because I was having the same issue, and saw this thread.
 * But having experimented further, I found that if I put a widget in the ‘widgets
   for shortcodes’ sidebar (appearance/widgets), the customizer then shows up fine.
   It only breaks the customizer when the ‘widgets for shortcodes’ sidebar is empty.
 * Hope that works for you too,
 * John
 *  Thread Starter [m-alo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/m-alo/)
 * (@m-alo)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaks-customizer-3/#post-13204509)
 * Thank you, John.
    That worked!
 *  [mcxg46](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mcxg46/)
 * (@mcxg46)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaks-customizer-3/#post-13206763)
 * Glad to hear it 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [anmari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anmari/)
 * (@anmari)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaks-customizer-3/#post-13207492)
 * Thanks for helping out guys! I’m pretty sure this came up before and there wasn’t
   a way for the plugin to avoid this issue.
    -  This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by [anmari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anmari/).
 *  Plugin Author [anmari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anmari/)
 * (@anmari)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaks-customizer-3/#post-13207516)
 * Found the old post. Happens when it’s a sidebar not created by the theme and 
   it’s empty.
 * [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-shortcode-sidebar-theme-customiser/#post-9720005](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-shortcode-sidebar-theme-customiser/#post-9720005)

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 * Last reply from: [anmari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anmari/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-breaks-customizer-3/#post-13207516)
 * Status: resolved