Text sidebar widget not updating

  • I just built my website from the ground up again on 3.2 (upgrading ran into trouble so it’s all form scratch). I’m having trouble with updating the sidebar widget. The more I research the more I think it’s got to do with browser caching but I’m lost now so checking with anyone who can offer some help.

    I’m trying to use a text widget to put a .jpg (or .png preferred) that is a clickable link to another website. I can do it for one of these .jpg but the other won’t show up. Regardless, when I press update, it doesn’t show up when I refresh the page. It will show up some time later.

    This time the footer even got involved and now shows up along the side bar.

    Anyone have any ideas so I can make edits and move on? I’ll keep looking in the forums but no luck so far.
    Thanks,
    Laura

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  • The footer moving might indicate a tag was not closed properly, but it could also do with what you’re putting in the sidebar expanding or changing the sidebar’s size (want to give it an fixed width in that scenario, i.e. width: 300px;)

    The image problem is probably due to where the image is located. If it’s in the Media section of your Admin area then you can copy and place that link and place it in the quotations – <img src="rightHere" /> However, if you calling the image from your theme’s image folder you need to call it different. <img src="<?php bloginfo('template_directory'); ?>/images/filename.jpg" />

    I hope something I just said was able to help – if not please help me better understand.

    Thread Starter Laura Landsiedel

    (@laura-landsiedel)

    Thank you. Your suggestions helped somewhat. But, it looks like it’s a caching problem after all. I was able to make it show up but then I had to make another edit and when I refreshed the page … no go. No edits show up. I’ll see if I can’t find out more information about making edits when there’s caching involved. Thank you

    If you suspect it’s caching and run a caching plugin you can try to disable it and see if it makes a difference – I’ve had regular problems with most caching plugins.

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