Worked it out – for some unknown reason, all the widgets were made inactive. Dragging the widgets back into the sidebar has re-established the sidebar. Annoying but fixed for the time being as long as whatever caused the widgets to become inactive in the first place doesn’t occur again.

Updated to latest version of Newspaper this morning and my sidebar has disappeared as well. Deactivated all plugins (except Visual Composer) – made no difference.

That fixed it – but what is strange is that only the email icon was displaying this issue while social icons had hover change colour effect. Thanks

Whats the hex colour for travel theme for the Travel Exlore Enjoy icons on home page?

Q – Check their support forums for tips on getting plugins to work with each other when there might be some oddball conflict.

A – Well I’m just going to get bounced around like that. Both plugins are standard in the theme and I doubt they would be there if there was a conflict so more relevant to get assistance here.

Q – i also find clearing cache, resaving permalinks, and clearing transients with wp-optimize helps

A – Yep, done that

Q – oh, and not using child themes!

A – Why? I did think of that and the problem exists whether main theme is activated or child is.

Q – Also note some stuff does not seem to work very well in multi-user setups, which is fault of the plugins most often.

A – Once again, both plugins are part and parcel of the theme. If it was a non-related plugin, I would be talking to the plugin creator first or simply delete it.

Thanks for taking the time to make some suggestions, but I’m no closer to having the problem resolved.