Title: Widgets Issue in sidebar
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Widgets Issue in sidebar

 *  [johncuts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johncuts/)
 * (@johncuts)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-issue-in-sidebar/)
 * I have just upgraded from version 2.0x to 2.5.1 and the widgets are not showing
   as installed on the Installed Widgets sidebar. It is the same with every theme.
   If is is a three column theme is gives the the drop down to show sidebar 1 or
   2 but there is nothing underneath it. All available widgets show in the left 
   hand menu and I can click Add. Then it just changes to EDIT but still nothing
   shows in the Current Widgets side nor is there a Save button. If I click on Show
   used widgets it says no widgets are currently installed though all the regular
   widgets show up on the site itself. Archives, Blogroll etc. I have looked at 
   other posts about missing widgets but cannt find an answer that works so far.
 * Any help would be appreciated.
 * Thanks

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 *  [alanft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alanft/)
 * (@alanft)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-issue-in-sidebar/#post-787694)
 * try deactivating plugins – especially if they provide widgets.
 * when you click add they should be stacking up on the right (under ‘Current Widgets’)
   with a “Save Changes’ button at the bottom. if you don’t see that, a widget might
   be poorly behaved – there was a big change in 2 -2.5 how widgets are meant to
   operate
 *  Thread Starter [johncuts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johncuts/)
 * (@johncuts)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-issue-in-sidebar/#post-787893)
 * Thanks for the reply. This was a fresh install on someone’s eathlink account,
   they still had the 2.0 version available. I almost immediately upgraded to the
   latest version and had no plugins activated when I noticed the issue. I have 
   since installed podpress and did try deactivating it but the problem persists.
   I have other installs of wordpress working perfectly on my own hosting accont
   with a different company.
 * Thanks for any help

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## Tags

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

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [johncuts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johncuts/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-issue-in-sidebar/#post-787893)
 * Status: not resolved

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