Missing sidebar and inactive links in blog posts

Could you please post the sites URL.

Radices, I realized after shutting down late, very late last night I didn’t include the url: https://sherreymeyer.com.

Also, I noticed last night that when I preview a new post I can see the sidebar and widgets and links are active. Once published, the sidebar and widgets disappear and links in post become inactive. Hope this helps.

What did you add to the site yesterday? Did you add any plugins for instance? Try disabling all the plugins and see if that solves the issue. If it does you can reactivate them one at a time until it breaks again. Then you know what the cause is.

Also try disabling the w3 cache as it might be serving up the broken posts.

Actually, I worked on my book all day yesterday and didn’t look at my blog until very late last night. The day before I did try out a plugin I hoped would create single-column pages leaving my pasts with sidebar and widgets. When I got it installed (and I’m sorry — out of sight, out of mind), I didn’t like the detailed settings and feared it might cause trouble (which it might have now).

I will try your suggestion and see what happens there. I’ll report back to you when I’ve completed the testing. Thanks so much for your help, Radices.

Radices, disabled all plugins and then reactivated one-by-one. At the point of disabling, nothing had changed but I went ahead with the one-by-one reactivation. Also disabled w3 cache. At this point, the sidebar and footer are the way they were on all pages and blog posts before last night. Also, the only two posts in which links are not working are my sticky post, “Please Stand by…” and “10 Women Writers…Part 2.” Everything else links are active and working fine.

Any other suggestions?

Radices, a lightbulb came on late last evening, and it worked to fix my problem. I got to thinking the problem started after the last two posts went live. So, I reverted them to drafts, checked, and my sidebar was back on the blog posts and links were working in blog posts. Then, I created a new post template, copy/pasted the text from the post I wanted published, and set my url for SEO purposes, and hit publish. It worked! Everything still seems to be working fine this morning. I wanted to let you know so you could move on to the next person needing help. Thanks for the suggestions you made and for your patience in working with me.

That’s great! Could you please mark this resolved. (Right sidebar of this thread)

Marked resolved. Thought I did before but in my excitement probably forget to click on “change.” ??