Title: Widgets will not work
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Widgets will not work

 *  [kharambula](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kharambula/)
 * (@kharambula)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-will-not-work/)
 * The following is the code in the sidebar.php that comes with the theme I am trying
   to use.
 *     ```
       <div class="category">
               <h2 class="first">Recent Posts</h2>
               <ul>
                 <?php get_archives('postbypost','5','html','','',FALSE); ?>
               </ul>
             </div>
             <div class="category">
               <h2>Categories</h2>
               <ul>
                 <?php wp_list_categories('show_count=1&title_li='); ?>
               </ul>
             </div>
             <div class="category">
               <h2>Archives</h2>
               <ul>
                 <?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>
               </ul>
             </div>
       ```
   
 * The items as defined above show in the sidebar but the theme does not show any
   other widgets when added. Since I don’t know much about coding (just enough to
   get in trouble) I am unsure why they won’t show and how I can go about fixing.
   I have tried reinstalling the theme, wordpress as well as trying to go backward
   and install 2.8 back to 2.6 to see if it would fix the issue. This theme was 
   designed in mid 2008. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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 *  [Anne Dorko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/annedorko/)
 * (@annedorko)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-will-not-work/#post-1457433)
 * [dynamic_sidebar](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/dynamic_sidebar)
 *  Thread Starter [kharambula](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kharambula/)
 * (@kharambula)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-will-not-work/#post-1457553)
 * THANK YOU!

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 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [kharambula](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kharambula/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-will-not-work/#post-1457553)
 * Status: not resolved

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