Extra "Pages" Widget in Footer 1, How Do I Remove It?

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ctomlin
#157281
Feb 8, 2017 at 4:21 pm

In one of the recent Newspaper updates the Footer 1 function was apparently changed and I now have an extra “Pages” widget that I don’t want and can’t find to remove.

I have the correct “Pages” widget in Footer 1, which is working fine. However, for some reason there is now an extra phantom “Pages” widget that I cannot find in Footer 1 to remove. See the screen-shot:

https://www.screencast.com/t/o7Qz6vbVLLxl

How do I get rid of this extra “Pages” widget? Where is it hiding? Help!

Thanks!

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Simion C.
#157382
Feb 9, 2017 at 10:29 am

Hi,

You could try changing the footer style and see what happens, it should not display a second pages widget if there is only one set in the footer section – https://www.screencast.com/t/T2py94Wx9HO If it’s still there try disabling all the plugins except Visual composer to eliminate a plugin being the cause. Also check any custom code you might have added to the theme and if you are using a child theme try switching to the main theme to rule that out also.

Thanks

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ctomlin
#157524
Feb 9, 2017 at 6:24 pm

Thanks @Simion C. for your ideas. I tried them all, and none of them worked to remove the extra code. PS – I also discovered that the “Search” widget was duplicating itself as well.

My work-around was to:

1. Use a Text widget to re-create the Pages widget. I hand-coded the HTML to get the Pages to work correctly in the first Footer.

2. I removed the Search widget which was also duplicating itself from my right side-bar. Not a great workaround and definitely not a good User Experience for my website visitors, but there’s already a search function in the header, so I figured “what the heck.”

PS – These widgets were working fine prior to the last NewsPaper update (Version 7.7). I had not added any new Plugins, nor had I changed the Child theme in any way. So something got changed to cause the widget to get reproduced in the code. Hope that helps.

Thanks,

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Simion C.
#157624
Feb 10, 2017 at 11:25 am

Hi,

Glad you managed to work something out, this is strange indeed. Here is the list of changes for the latest version of the theme – https://themeforest.net/item/newspaper/5489609 Please let us know if you need further help.

Thanks

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