Title: Widgets not working
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Widgets not working

 *  [quinker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quinker/)
 * (@quinker)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-not-working-6/)
 * Hi,
    I am using the theme [http://www.ezwpthemes.com/templates/commute-reader.html](http://www.ezwpthemes.com/templates/commute-reader.html)
   for my blog.
 * I have a problem. I am able to drag and drop widgets into the sidebar in Appearance-
   >Widgets. But the widgets are not appearing on the page on the sidebar.
 * All items displayed in the sidebar are coming from code in sidebar.php. I’ve 
   updated my WP version to 2.9.2
 * Can someone please help me resolve this?
 * Thanks,

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-not-working-6/#post-1395732)
 * your theme does not have widget support in sidebar.php; read this article from
   the codex to make it dynamic:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/dynamic_sidebar](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/dynamic_sidebar)
 * already inserted into the sidebar.php code below:
 *     ```
       <div id="sidebar">
   
       <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
   
       <h3>RECENT POSTS</h3>
       <ul>
       <?php get_archives('postbypost', 10); ?>
       </ul>
       <div id="sidebar_left">
       <h3>Search</h3>
       <?php get_sidebar_search_form(); ?>
       <h3>Categories</h3>
       <ul>
       <?php wp_list_cats('sort_column=name&optioncount=0&hierarchical=0'); ?>
       </ul>
       <h3>Archives</h3>
       <ul>
       <?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>
       </ul>
       <h3>Meta</h3>
       <ul>
       <?php wp_register(); ?>
       <li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
       <li><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer" title="This page validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional">Valid <abbr title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</abbr></a></li>
       <li><a href="http://gmpg.org/xfn/"><abbr title="XHTML Friends Network">XFN</abbr></a></li>
       <li><a href="http://Wordpress.org/" title="</li>
       <?php wp_meta(); ?>
       </ul>
       </div>
       <div id="as"><img src="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_directory'); ?>/images/img3.jpg" /></div>
   
       <?php endif; ?>
   
       </div>
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [quinker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quinker/)
 * (@quinker)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-not-working-6/#post-1395779)
 * Thankyou for the reply. Is this what I need to do for a dynamic sidebar?
 * <?php if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’) || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
 * Add the above code to sidebar.php ???
 * Where is this function defined? I cannot find widgets.php in wp-includes. Where
   can I find this file to upload?
 * Could you please tell me step by step about what exactly I need to do?
 * I am a newbie and am new to coding too.
 * Please help!
 *  Thread Starter [quinker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quinker/)
 * (@quinker)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-not-working-6/#post-1395785)
 * Oh yes, I got it..
 * Its working now.. Thanks a ton alchymyth 🙂

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 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [quinker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quinker/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-not-working-6/#post-1395785)
 * Status: not resolved

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