Title: Problem with text widgets
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Problem with text widgets

 *  [everydaytips](https://wordpress.org/support/users/everydaytips/)
 * (@everydaytips)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-text-widgets-1/)
 * I am getting desperate because I have spent so much time on this problem.
 * My text widgets were working fine. I tried adding a new one yesterday and when
   I clicked ‘add’, all my text widgets just disappeared. However, the system was
   acting like they still existed because I went to add one back, it showed 9 widgets,
   when none were actually displaying on the site itself, and none were appearing
   on the admin panel where you could actually inactivate it. I was able to get 
   the widget count to align with the actual number of widgets, but it seems to 
   max out at 3 widgets on each sidebar. If I add a fourth widget to the left sidebar
   for example, all widgets on the right sidebar completely disappear and the fourth
   widget appears where the next column would be by the left sidebar, if there was
   a second column. Instead it overlays the title and verbiage of my first post.
   I have tried this with multiple themes and it is all the same. I have deactivated
   all my plugins and that did not change anything. Can anyone please help me? If
   you look at the site right now, it will look fine because I only have 3 widgets
   on each sidebar.
 * website is [http://everydaytipsandthoughts.com](http://everydaytipsandthoughts.com)
 * I appreciate any and all input.

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 *  [flamenco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flamenco/)
 * (@flamenco)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-text-widgets-1/#post-1490247)
 * I think I was right on my first guess. If you paste crud into a text box, you
   can get all sorts of misery. One of your text widgets has a very messed up attempt
   at a link. Not only is the link not closed, but there’s a dreaded font tag in
   there, too. 🙂
 * If you fix that, you may fix the whole thing. I have a client who likes to throw
   all kinds of code into wherever, and he frequently bollixes his whole site.
 * I just did a quick HTML validate on your page. 106 errors. I would suggest checking
   that when things get really crazy.
 * This very strange thing appears all over:
 *     ```
       <font size="1"><a>
       	</a></font>
       ```
   
 * Sorry to give bad news, but this is really borked.
 * Good luck, D
 *  Thread Starter [everydaytips](https://wordpress.org/support/users/everydaytips/)
 * (@everydaytips)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-text-widgets-1/#post-1490251)
 * I actually fixed it while you were typing! So here is what I think happened:
 * I added a badge last night and all my text widgets disappeared. I then replaced
   some of them from the source code. Well, I copied too much and included an extra
   <div> on one of the widgets I copied. That must have caused a horrible snowball
   effect. (I think that ‘font size = 1’ may have come from a bad paste on a facebook
   button.
 * So, I got rid of all text widgets and recreated them and reinserted them. All
   the widgets work just beautiful now. Thank you so much for looking!!!!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [everydaytips](https://wordpress.org/support/users/everydaytips/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-text-widgets-1/#post-1490251)
 * Status: not resolved

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