Not showing custom widgets?

Ok, it is a conflict with the plugin Q2W3 Fixed Widget https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/q2w3-fixed-widget/

As when I disable Q2W3 Fixed Widget, it works.

How can I make your plugin work with Q2W3 Fixed Widget?

Thanks

Hi @jamiek47,

Apologies for the delay here.

I did some tests on my installation by creating new Sidebar, adding custom widget in it and then assigning it to one of my posts and also all of posts type and I can still see it properly.
Of course Q2W3 Fixed Widget was active the whole time and I even tried with Fixed widget enabled and disabled but it didn’t made any difference.

Can you check if this works for you when using default WP theme or if I’m missing some steps here?

Cheers,
Predrag

Hi,

Strange, it does work with the theme Twenty Sixteen.

What do you think the issue could be?

Thanks

I’m actually still seeing this (hosted WP) – Any luck WPMU? Any suggestions … can’t really turn Jetpack off ;/
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/118962/WordPress/doesnt-save-setting.gif

Just to add to the mix, some pages still show the custom one, but dont indicate it in the admin interface, and for some reason also stop working at times too.

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@reapazor I’m not sure why you are replying on this thread?

Wrong thread ?? sigh. Had two open.

Hello @jamiek47,

Strange, it does work with the theme Twenty Sixteen.

What do you think the issue could be?

It seems that there is conflict with plugin caused by the theme. What theme are you using?

kind regards,
Kasia

The theme is https://en-gb.www.ads-software.com/themes/delicacy/

Hi @jamiek47,

Thanks for the info, the issue is definitely theme related.

I have installed it on my site and could see the issue happening.
I noticed that theme is outdated as it hasn’t been updated for over two years and the code used for sidebar doesn’t follow WP development rules so Custom Sidebars can’t do it’s job.

What happens with this theme is that it if you don’t add any widgets in sidebar it will instead load predefined widgets, Archives and Meta.
So when you enable that sidebar to be replaced it reads it as empty and instead of letting Custom Sidebars to load its widgets it shows the default one.

I was able to get it working in the end by editing theme functions.php file and defining widget ID like this:

register_sidebar(array(
	'name' => 'Right Sidebar',
	'id'            => 'right-sidebar',
	'before_widget' => '<div class="widget">',
	'after_widget' => '</div>',
	'before_title' => '<h3>',
	'after_title' => '</h3>',
));

Where ‘id’ => ‘right-sidebar’ is the part that I added.

After that I had to add one widget to “Right Sidebar”, enable for it to be replace and select it in single post again as well.

Also, widget styling was wrong so I had to edit my custom sidebar and add proper widget and title holders like this:
https://screencast.com/t/rZ6iVxxbKHR2

So after all that it started working fine but I would strongly suggest switching to newer theme that’s still supported by its developers.

Cheers,
Predrag

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Works a treat ??