Where are the sidebars?

First, thank you very much for a very powerful and nice theme! I am happy I have it.

Sorry for the really dumb question:

I do not see any sidebars in my view of the Widgets (see attached screen shot). I am using a Child theme of the Newspaper theme, is that perhaps the problem? I tried creating a new sidebar called ‘Main Sidebar’ in one of my categories, but I am still not seeing any sidebars in the Widgets area. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks, I will try that and let you know.

Also, will send a separate email, I have this message upon opening my theme this morning:

“Please activate the theme! – Click here to enter your code – if this is an error please contact us at activate@tagdiv.com”

Yikes!

UPDATE> Problem Fixed.

I found the problem, it was indeed a Plugin. The new version of the plugin Google Analyticator caused the Widget menus to disappear. Disabling the plugin fixed the problem. Here’s the plugin and version information that caused the problem…

Google Analyticator:
Adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google’s Analytics. After enabling this plugin you need to authenticate with Google, then select your domain and you’re set. Version 6.4.8 | By Video User Manuals Pty Ltd | View details

My guess is the javascript they are using is causing issues with the menu function. I will look for a different Google Analytics plugin to try.

Thank you.

Regards,

Craig

@ctomlin
the theme actually has a section where you can put in your Google analytics code to print at bottom of your pages/posts.

Thanks Christopher, I wasn’t aware of that, good info!

Also, I did fix the problem with Google Analyticator. Turns out it’s a more serious issue that causes this problem on any website that is using both Akismet and Google Analyticator. There’s a config.php code error in a file in Google Analyticator that causes the issue. A simple change to the code fixes the problem.

For anyone else that may have this issue you can see the problem definition and solution on the WordPress Support website here…

(https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-update-throws-error-in-settings-page?replies=11)

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