Title: Widget Capability – Need Help
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Widget Capability – Need Help

 *  [auctionbabez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/auctionbabez/)
 * (@auctionbabez)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-capability-need-help/)
 * Hello everyone, I recently signed up with siteground and they installed WP for
   me. However, they didn’t install any widget capability (meaning I don’t have 
   the widget option under presentation). I tried to install the widget plugin under
   automatic, which everyone suggestions, and now my site looks like this (www.auctionbabez.
   com). It seems like the widget placements is being layered on top of the other
   original widgets. Does anyone have any suggestions? I though there is a way to
   add widget files so you don’t have to add files to each individual theme????
 * Sam

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-capability-need-help/#post-571095)
 * If you are using WordPress 2.2, then it is not necessary to install the Sidebar
   Widget plugin as 2.2 has the widget ability ‘built-in’..
 * You may need to find themes that are widget compatible (see [Widget Ready Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_List/Widget-ready))
   instead of trying to widgetize the themes yourself.
 *  Thread Starter [auctionbabez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/auctionbabez/)
 * (@auctionbabez)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-capability-need-help/#post-571098)
 * I think they must have installed me with an older version of WordPress, maybe
   2.1. Is there a quick and easy way to upgrade to 2.2? The widget plugin thing
   isn’t working for me.
 * Sam
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-capability-need-help/#post-571100)
 * [Upgrading WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_Wordpress) has instructions.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * Last activity: [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-capability-need-help/#post-571100)
 * Status: not resolved

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