3.9 upgrade problem: Lost sidebar widget on static front page

I’m calling the custom sidebar this way:

<?php get_template_part( 'inc-sidebar' ); ?>

Like I say, this works fine on the other pages, including other static pages, but not on my home page.

Hm, narrowing things down. I’m using an excerpt code for the front page, and by looking at View Source, I can see that somewhere in there the page stops loading in the middle of it.

This is the code I’m using:

<?php
$excerpts = new WP_Query( array(
    'post_type' => 'post',
    'post_status' => 'publish',
    'posts_per_page' => 5
) );

if ( $excerpts->have_posts() ) :
?>
<ul>
<?php
    while ( $excerpts->have_posts() ) : $excerpts->the_post();
?><li><?php echo get_avatar( get_the_author_meta( 'ID' ), 96 ); ?>
<h2 class="post-title"><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
<p class="byline">by <?php the_author(); ?> <span>| <?php the_date(); ?></span></p>

<?php the_excerpt(); ?></li><?php
    endwhile;
    wp_reset_postdata();
?></ul><?php
endif;
?>

Going to repost this differently. Think I discovered it’s a problem related to users.

hello
i am also having the same problem
the sidebar is not loading
lost completely on front page
please help

please any help would be appreciated

@news tech

please start your own topic;
it is very unlikely that you are using the same custom theme as @rabbisaul

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Forum_Welcome#Where_To_Post

I’ve updated the details of this problem over on StackExchange: https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/141752/users-problem-multi-author-plus-multisite

It appears that something is going on in the Users that is breaking things related to specific users. It’s pretty strange.

Looks like the problem was somehow related to the Simple Local Avatars plugin. My guess is that something broke in one of the point releases of 3.8 between WP and the plugin. Using Avatar Manager now and things seem good again.

Hi, please i have been experiencing some issues with my widget these days and it started after i upgraded to wordpress 3.9. I cannot see all my widgets on my website and when i check my admin area for the widget, i saw that all those widgets are grouped under inactive side bars and the message, this side bar is no longer available and does not show any where on your site, please remove these widgets to fully remove this inactive sidebar. secondly , i cant move any of the widgets to the side bar to activate them and some bottons in other places were not responding, please help me out. do i have to deactivate all my plug ins maybe there are ones not compatible with wordpress 3.9

The blog I need help with is techandglobe.com.

@handful417: If you require assistance then, as per the Forum Welcome, please post your own topic instead of tagging onto someone else’s topic.