{"id":18974975,"date":"2026-07-25T22:03:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/using-ssb-no-longer-working-in-widget-area\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T22:03:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T22:03:31","slug":"using-ssb-no-longer-working-in-widget-area","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/using-ssb-no-longer-working-in-widget-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Using [SSB] no longer working in Widget area"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hi, been using SSB for 5 years now (in a classic theme scenario) with a really simple setup:<br \/>1) Chose the button design I like<br \/>2) Didn&#8217;t select any position options<br \/>3) Used the [SSB] shortcut in &#8220;Widgets&#8221; in our right sidebar which gave us the fully functioning icons<br \/><br \/>Since the latest upgrade the buttons do not load in the sidebar properly unless a position option is selected (i.e. &#8220;Inline&#8221;) and posts &amp; pages is selected. They appear on the sidebar but are unstyled and non-functioning unless they are &#8220;positioned&#8221; first through settings.<br \/><br \/>Is there any way to restore the previous functionality so the buttons can work solely in a widget area?<br \/><br \/>Thanks for your time<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18974975","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-shortcode","topic-tag-widget"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18974975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18974975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18974975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}