Title: Widgets don't display
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Widgets don't display

 *  Resolved [Kaspalita](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaspalita/)
 * (@kaspalita)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-dont-display-1/)
 * Hi,
 * Just installed this theme on WordPress 4.4.1 and none of the widgets 1-4 are 
   appearing – I can see someone else had a similar problem here: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/home-template-doesnt-work](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/home-template-doesnt-work)
 * But I’m not clear how their issue was resolved. The widgets aren’t showing up
   at all for me.
 * Site is currently at [http://www.amidatrust.com/amidaschool/](http://www.amidatrust.com/amidaschool/)
   but I may play around with some other themes if I can’t get this to work.

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 *  [Madhusudan Pokharel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madhusudan977/)
 * (@madhusudan977)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-dont-display-1/#post-6965434)
 * Hello,
    Archives and Meta too are widgets. I can see they are activated in your
   site’s sidebar. Where do you want to display widgets?
 *  Thread Starter [Kaspalita](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaspalita/)
 * (@kaspalita)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-dont-display-1/#post-6965441)
 * Hi Madhusudan,
 * I actually was trying to find out where they display by default, so I can choose
   what to put there.
 * I have entered some text into text boxes for each widget ‘Widget One’ etc. and
   those text boxes don’t appear anywhere – that’s what’s confusing me.
 *  Thread Starter [Kaspalita](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kaspalita/)
 * (@kaspalita)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-dont-display-1/#post-6965466)
 * I’ve worked it out now. I need to set the template to ‘home-page’ for these to
   show up.
 *  [Madhusudan Pokharel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madhusudan977/)
 * (@madhusudan977)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-dont-display-1/#post-6965566)
 * Hello,
    It’s good that you have the widgets. You have activated widgets in wrong
   place, which is meant for main content area of the site.It looks so weird as 
   there is so much white space on your home page.Widgets should always be activated
   either in side of site or bottom of site.Here’s proper tutorial on widgets: [https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Widgets](https://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Widgets)
   Anyway, it’s upto you how you manage your site.

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 * Last reply from: [Madhusudan Pokharel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madhusudan977/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-dont-display-1/#post-6965566)
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