Title: Widget Woes
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Widget Woes

 *  [ljstores](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ljstores/)
 * (@ljstores)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-woes-1/)
 * My widgets just wont work 🙁
    I have tried ALL day to figure this out by reading
   the forums and trying out different combinations but to no avail 🙁
 * at the moment I have the widgets set up in admin and they do not show up on the
   page that way. The right sidebar appears as the default even though i have changed
   the widgets around.
 * Initially all i was trying to do was add two text widgets.. one with with a blurb
   and a link to the first post on my blog, which i succeeded in doing but when 
   i went to add another text widget, it appeared behind my picture in the main 
   post but if i deleted the text and just kept the title it would go where it should.
   Whatever i did to try and resolve any issue was undone and screwed up every time
   I made any other adjustment.
 * No matter how many times I move the widget around they will not appear where 
   I want them to and when i move a widget from one sidebar to the other it shifts
   the text out of alignment.
 * I sure could use some help?
    http: //huskpaw.com Still going to carry on trying
   to troubleshoot it so the widget placements might move!
 * Oh and I am using a widget ready theme.

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 *  [jonimueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jonimueller/)
 * (@jonimueller)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-woes-1/#post-710966)
 * URI bad, even taking out the space after http:
 * Can you provide a valid, working link, please?
 *  [alexleonard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexleonard/)
 * (@alexleonard)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-woes-1/#post-710967)
 * I can’t seem to get [http://www.huskpaw.com](http://www.huskpaw.com) to load –
   this domain isn’t registered apparently.
 * Is this the right domain name?
 *  Thread Starter [ljstores](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ljstores/)
 * (@ljstores)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-woes-1/#post-710978)
 * oops ..sorry the Y must have stuck on my keyboard
 * it should be huskypaw I didn’t want to make it a live link as i didnt want it
   indexing in the search engine until its working.
 * Thanks
 *  [alexleonard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexleonard/)
 * (@alexleonard)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-woes-1/#post-710983)
 * It’s hard to tell exactly what is wrong I guess at the moment. If you can put
   the text into the text widget so we can see what’s causing it to be mis-aligned.
 * Basically – let us know when it is appearing broken again please 😉
 *  Thread Starter [ljstores](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ljstores/)
 * (@ljstores)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-woes-1/#post-710990)
 * Hi again 🙂
    You can see that the calender text is out of alignment and the tags
   text too! I moved one of the text widgets and it appeared behind the image in
   the main post.
 * As you can see from this screen shot that nothing is where it should be. there
   are only two text boxes in admin and yet 3 show on the page…. and it shows two
   blogrolls and there is only one in the admin.
 * http:// huskypaw.com/images/widget.jpg
 *  [alexleonard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexleonard/)
 * (@alexleonard)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-woes-1/#post-711003)
 * Thanks for sending those bits of info through.
 * I’m not sure exactly what is causing this, but could you do me another favour
   and show me what line of code you are using to generate your 2 sidebars?
    Does
   your “functions.php” file contain:
 *     ```
       if ( function_exists('register_sidebars') )
           register_sidebars(2);
       ```
   
 * Elsewhere in your theme possibly footer.php, or sidebar.php
 * you might have the following lines:
 *     ```
       <ul>
       	<?php dynamic_sidebar('Sidebar 1'); ?>
       </ul>
       ```
   
 * and
 *     ```
       <ul>
       	<?php dynamic_sidebar('Sidebar 2'); ?>
       </ul>
       ```
   
 * Basically, there must be something funny with the way your widget sidebars are
   being called for it to be spitting out duplicates – but I don’t know enough php
   to be sure…
 * ?
 *  Thread Starter [ljstores](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ljstores/)
 * (@ljstores)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-woes-1/#post-711048)
 * Hi again…thank you so much for trying to help me…sorry about the delay…life 🙂
 * this is what I have in functions .php
 * <?php
 * if ( function_exists(‘register_sidebars’) )
    register_sidebars(2); ?>
 * This is what I have in sidebar.php
 * <ul id=”sidebarright”>
    <?php if ( function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’) && dynamic_sidebar(
   2) ) : else : ?>
 *  <li id=”pages”><?php _e(‘<h2>Pages</h2>’); ?>
    -  <?php wp_list_pages(‘sort_column=menu_order&title_li=’); ?>
 *  <li id=”categories”><?php _e(‘<h2>Categories</h2>’); ?>
    -  <?php wp_list_cats(”); ?>
 * the following is ALL the code for sidebar2.php
    <ul id=”sidebarleft”> <?php get_links_list();?
   > <li id=”archives”><?php _e(‘<h2>Archives</h2>’); ?>
    -  <?php wp_get_archives(‘type=monthly’); ?>
 * <?php if ( function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’) && dynamic_sidebar(1) ) : else :?
   >
 *  <li id=”Recent Posts”><?php _e(‘<h2>Recent Posts</h2>’); ?>
    <ul class=”menublock”
   > <p><?php wp_get_archives(‘type=postbypost&limit=05’); ?></p>
 *  <li id=”Recent Comments”><?php _e(‘<h2>Recent Comments</h2>’); ?>
    -  <?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/simple_recent_comments.php’); ?>
       <?php if(
      function_exists(‘src_simple_recent_comments’)) { src_simple_recent_comments(
      5, 40, ”); } ?>
 *  <?php endif; ?>
 * and this is all the footer code
    <?php /* WARNING: This file is protected by 
   copyright law. To reverse engineer or decode this file is strictly prohibited.*/
   $o=”QAAACg07Y25xJ25jOiVhaGhzcAEAdWZ3JTkKDQFwdzk7dHN1aGkAAGA5IWRod348Jzs4d293J2IAAGRvaCdjZnNiLyBeIC48JzhAADkBl
 *  [alexleonard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexleonard/)
 * (@alexleonard)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-woes-1/#post-711053)
 * Ok. This is a little confusing, and you have some cases of duplicate id’s around
   your site, which is never going to help things.
 * As far as I can tell you should have 3 main areas to the body of your site:
 *     ```
       <div id="leftnav"></div>
       <div id="rightnav"></div>
       <div id="content"></div>
       ```
   
 * The way I would be calling my sidebars is thus:
 *     ```
       <div id="leftnav">
        <ul id="sidebarleft">
         <?php dynamic_sidebar('Sidebar 1'); ?>
        </ul>
       </div>
       <div id="rightnav">
        <ul id="sidebarright">
         <?php dynamic_sidebar('Sidebar 2'); ?>
        </ul>
       </div>
       ```
   
 * In this case potentially your sidebar.php file won’t matter at all.
 * If we can’t work it out from here I might need to get you to do a code dump so
   I can look through the files properly.
 *  Thread Starter [ljstores](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ljstores/)
 * (@ljstores)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-woes-1/#post-711058)
 * Hi again, I fear I wont get a resolution to this 🙁
    Not much of what you wrote
   makes sens to me 🙁 I don’t know what you mean about duplicate id’s?
 * This website is an addon domain to an existing domain..might that be relevant?
 * I do not understand php at all and wordpress is very new to me. I sucessfully
   uploaded word press and then a theme. I haven’t changed anything and I deactivate
   all the plugins i had installed.
    These are the files that are listed in my theme
   editor.
 * ‘taste-of-heaven’ theme files
 *  * Stylesheet
    * 404 Template * Archives * Archives * Popup Comments * Comments*
   Footer * functions.php * Header * Main Index Template * Links * Page Template*
   Search Results * searchform.php * Sidebar * sidebar2.php * simple_recent_comments.
   php * Single Post I am really unsure if and what, you are asking me?
 * Sorry but I am a total novice.
 *  [alexleonard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexleonard/)
 * (@alexleonard)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-woes-1/#post-711066)
 * I’m going to upload that theme to one of my test sites and play around with it,
   hopefully i can duplicate your issues and get a solution soon.
 *  [alexleonard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexleonard/)
 * (@alexleonard)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-woes-1/#post-711067)
 * Ok. To be honest that theme is pretty horribly coded and it’s not something I’d
   be proud to release to the general public, but I’m hoping that, although this
   isn’t the absolutely right way to do things, that it might fix stuff for you 
   now.
 * Please ensure that you have a backup of the theme files in case this doesn’t 
   work for you.
 * I have a test version which seems to be ok now at
    [http://alex.leonard.ie/](http://alex.leonard.ie/)
 * Some of the widgets need some css styling to get their padding right, but it 
   seems to be working ok.
 * In sidebar.php – delete everything and replace it with:
 *     ```
       <ul id="sidebarright">
       <?php dynamic_sidebar('Sidebar 1'); ?>
       </ul>
       ```
   
 * In sidebar2.php – delete everything and replace with:
 *     ```
       <ul id="sidebarleft">
       	<?php dynamic_sidebar('Sidebar 2'); ?>
       </ul>
       ```
   
 * Why on earth anyone would make it so that id=”sidebarleft” is appearing on the
   right hand side of the page I don’t know.
 * It’s working on my test site anyway – and i duplicated all the widgets that you
   had going on.
 * (NB – the above code isn’t the perfect way to do things as there is nothing to
   present basic info if you remove all the widgets, but you aren’t going to be 
   doing that so I’m sure it’s fine!)
 * If this doesn’t work for you then we’re going to have to think about approaching
   this in another way.
 *  Thread Starter [ljstores](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ljstores/)
 * (@ljstores)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-woes-1/#post-711069)
 * Well its better but the second widget on the right isnt working…whatever widget
   I have second, ends up aligned right 🙁
 * Thanks so much for your time….should i just try and find another theme…I really
   like what I have but I am worried its going to continually cause conflicts?
 * Thanks again……….
 *  Thread Starter [ljstores](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ljstores/)
 * (@ljstores)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-woes-1/#post-711070)
 * Oops I meant the third one down on the right side !
 *  [alexleonard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexleonard/)
 * (@alexleonard)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-woes-1/#post-711072)
 * And does it work if you put that widget in the left column?
 * I would be pretty tempted to look at any other themes that might be available,
   give that this one has caused immense troubles so far?!
 *  Thread Starter [ljstores](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ljstores/)
 * (@ljstores)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-woes-1/#post-711073)
 * No it doesn’t work, whichever widget is the third down on the right, sticks out
   at the right!! 🙁
 * I am going to look for another theme but not today as it’s my birthday 🙂
 * Can you give me details of your paypal account as I want to give you a little
   token of appreciation for putting in the time to try and help me. It wont be 
   much as I don’t have much..lol
 * Thanks again.

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