Title: Problems Saving with Widgetized Pages
Last modified: February 1, 2017

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# Problems Saving with Widgetized Pages

 *  [solocutor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solocutor/)
 * (@solocutor)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-saving-with-widgetized-pages/)
 * I have 2 annoying problems with widgetized pages. Here’s the first: certain changes
   to widgets aren’t saved. Example:
 * I go into a widgetized page, and want to change the URL of a link in one of the
   widgets. Here’s how I do it: I click ‘Edit Page’, click ‘Add/Edit Widgets’, click
   pencil icon above relevant widget, click ‘Edit Content’ button, click link text,
   click ‘edit’ pencil icon, change link target, click ‘enter’ icon, click ‘Save&
   Close.’ After this process, the “Saved” icon at the top of the customizer screen
    - does not change
 *  to “Save and Publish.” The change is NOT SAVED, even though I hit “Save & Close.”
   If I click the ‘Edit Content’ button again, my changes are visible until I click
   the link text again, then they disappear! It took me a while to figure out what
   was happening. I’d exit the customizer/editor thinking that the changes had been
   made, but they weren’t.
 * Here’s how I finally got the changes to stick. Same process as before: _I click‘
   Edit Page’, click ‘Add/Edit Widgets’, click pencil icon above relevant widget,
   click ‘Edit Content’ button, click link text, click ‘edit’ pencil icon, change
   link target, click ‘enter’ icon,_
    - make a trivial change to the text,
 *  _click ‘Save & Close.’_ After this process, the “Saved” icon at the top of the
   customizer screen
    - does change
 *  to “Save and Publish,” and I can save normally.
 * My second problem is related, and I’m hoping there’s a simple solution. I can’t
   seem to find the way to make a widgetized page point to a different widget sidebar.
   Here’s what I’m doing:
 * From the normal ‘Edit’ screen for a page, I can see the Custom Field “page_sidebar”
   and am able to change it manually, then hit the ‘Update’ button for the individual
   field. The page preview shows that everything is alright, so I hit ‘Update’ (
   or ‘Publish’). Once I do this, the Custom Field reverts to its old value.

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 *  Thread Starter [solocutor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solocutor/)
 * (@solocutor)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-saving-with-widgetized-pages/#post-8726892)
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 *  [bearcub83](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bearcub83/)
 * (@bearcub83)
 * [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-saving-with-widgetized-pages/#post-8732654)
 * I am having similar issues, except in certain plugins. When I am trying to save
   changes made in their settings, or if I am trying to change tabs within a plugin’s
   customisation area.
 * This has only been happening since I updated to 4.7.2
 * Alex

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 * [widgets](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/widgets/)

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-saving-with-widgetized-pages/#post-8732654)
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