Hello,
I’m seeing this on the sidebar of my homepage: https://i.imgur.com/C89R9tu.jpg
It seems the sidebar has been emptied from almost all its widgets: https://i.imgur.com/3ZrDGbs.jpg
Did it happen because I switched from Newspaper child-theme to Twenty Seventeen before getting back to Newspaper-child theme? How do I restore my sidebar in its previous state?
Where can we indicate sensible data like site URL, etc.? Everything is public here.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Best regards,
Florence.
Yes. This is how WordPress works – it ‘clears’ the active widgets when changing themes. It’s not theme related.
Usually it will move the items to bottom of appearance > widgets as ‘deactivated’ and you can drag stuff back into working widget boxes.
WordPress does this, as otherwise site would crash trying to do queries for non-existant theme code for a widget from theme running on different theme.
Welcome to WordPress! 🙂
I think there is a plugin, I’ve not tried it, which allows you to save the ‘state’ of widgets, so you can go between themes and keep widgets as is (maybe it’s ‘theme switcher’ ?). Not sure. But you can go to WordPress.org and look at plugin repo to check that.
( I don’t work here – just some advice. )
