Widgets

Some themes include default menu options. If the theme is widget-enabled, then add some widgets that you want. Adding a widget should make the default options go away.

No, tried that, the widgets that are there, stay there and i ahve not selected them so there is no option to remove them. I have also trid two other templates and its exactly the same????

It’s possible that you have inadvertently chosen three themes that aren’t widget-capable. Have you tried activating the default theme and seeing if you can add widgets then?

Yes it tells me that the theme i have is widget compatable, and i have tried with the default again but to no avail…?

@mapasm: I’m having the EXACT same problem. The default theme works perfectly with the widgets. But when I activate the theme I want to use, I can not update the widgets that it shows and I can’t take them away. On top of that, the widgets that are up don’t update, they all link to the site where I downloaded the theme at.

What is that all about? If you want to see what I mean: https://www.khodgefilms.com/blog/

Been trying to figure it out all morning and I’ve run out of ideas.

@mapasm: Try deactivating all of your plugins and see if that helps. A bad plugin might be interfering with widget functionality.

@khodge: Have you tried adding any widgets via Admin/Appearance/Widgets? What you’re currently seeing is almost certainly the default, widget-less, sidebar content.

@esmi: No, it’s nothing that simple. I’ve studied the code and the default theme uses

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

to pull up the sidebar with the widgets enabled. The theme I downloaded has code that looks like this:

<div class="sidebar1">

<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/sidebar.php'); ?>

</div>

I’m curious, if I change TEMPLATEPATH to something else or just delete it. Not sure. But that line of code is found nowhere within the index.php unlike the default theme.

When I add

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

to the index.php, the widgets come up underneath my posts (not in the sidebar area)

Bottom line, this theme is poorly constructed. ?? I’m I missing something elementary here. This is my first time using WordPress, but I’m super familiar with html, css, and php.

You can simply replace the above with:

<div class="sidebar1">

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

</div>

Have you looked at sidebar.php? That’s the file that will determine the widget functionality.

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Widgetizing_Themes

I tried doing that, but because the call for the sidebar isn’t in either the index.php or footer.php, it doesn’t change anything.

The only place the call for the sidebar is at are on pages like 404.php or archive.php.

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Suggestion: get a new theme. The one you have is using encrypted files – a nasty, disreputable, practice. if you’re curious about the content of footer.php, see https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/300761

Thank you so much for that link! I had no clue wtf was going on with that footer.php file.

And I do believe I’ll be switching themes. ?? Almost a whole day wasted on this silly problem.

Anyway, thanks a lot for your help esmi!

i have tried 3 different themes but still no luck…… at this rate i may have to delete and re-install!