Edna Houston

This is a new install of this addon and it is part of a MainWP Network. The MainWP Child plugin is installed and activated with no problem. This addon installed and activated on another site in the network with no problem.

Ok. That is not how it behaves for me. If I am viewing a page that uses “right-page-sidebar” and I publish a widget to “pagep-right-sidebar”, in the customizer in the left column (where you add and organize the widgets) it shows the widget. On the right side (the preview side) it does NOT show the widget. And the widget doesn’t show on any page that uses the “page-right-sidebar” (template (https://domain.com/about, https://domain.com/links, etc)

I can make the widget show on these pages by adding it to the “blog-sidebar’ and setting the visibility to “show-if-page-is-about”, etc.

I should clarify that I am using a child theme although the only files the child theme folder contains is style.css and functions.php. I have not created any specialty pages
yet. The only thing the style sheet does is the standard import of parent styles and create a highlight box with blue background. The only function I have created is to hide posts in the category “uncatagorized” from the blog page. So the child theme is very “vanilla”
I’m now wondering if this is a conflict with a plugin so I’m going to do some testing on another site I have. I will use the theme as is and disable all plugins and see what happens.

Ok. I have loaded up everything in my test side and am running it from Storytime itself and it behaves just as you say it should. I obviously have some kind of conflict so now it’s on to the “bug-hunt” to find just where that problem happens to be. Consider this solved in that it is MY problem, not yours ?? Thanks so much for your help.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by Edna Houston.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 5 months ago by Edna Houston.

I think I have it worked out now. Apparently, there really isn’t any “right-page-sidebar”. When you select the template “right-page-sidebar” is is just using a narrow page template that pulls “blog-sidebar” and you have to use visibility setting to determine which pages your widgets show on.

I was confused because when you are looking at a page using “page-right-template” and click “customize” –> widgets –> right-sidebar and try to add widgets to the right-sidebar, they never show up anyplace. I’ve got it now. Thanks.

Ok, one other question. When you are composing and select either page-right-sidebar, or
page-left-sidebar, you get a bottom sidebar. Just to let you know. I guess I will need to build a page template that has a sidebar.

Yes, I got the update and the edit link is now back on pages. Thank you so muc! It is extremely “unhandy” to have to go back into dashboard->pages->edit page every time you have to make the smallest tweak.

Thank you for the clarification on the sidebar. I did find a workaround but it was my search for the workaround that caused the missing sidebar problem. The plugin “Widget Title Link” was not compatible and caused any sidebar with widgets to disappear. The “Enhanced Text Widget” did what I wanted once I turned off the plugin that conflicted with it ??

I complain about these conflicts but, in truth, I love them because I love solving puzzles. Sometimes I do things just to find out if I can do them. Right now I am trying to figure out how I can have category pages show only the linked article titles.
Also trying to work out a system for my series posts.

Thank you so much for your help. I love this theme and think I will probably end up purchasing the pro version after the first of the month (when I have the $$)

Ignore the part about the missing sidebars. That is a plugin conflict. Now, I just have to find out which one it is.

Yes. Outside of the dynamic widgeted area. Don’t make a big deal of it. I mostly wanted to know which file contained the “blog-sidebar” code because I couldn’t find one.

Ooops I just updated Storytime to the newest version and now I do not have any sidebars on my blog pages. When I am on my blog page in customizer it says the theme has 10 widget areas but this page(index) doesn’t have any. I go to each of my pages and they don’t have any. Also, footer menu is gone.

For blog page, I have “default with sidebar” selected. If you go into widgets from Dashboard (not through Customizer) you can see that “Blog Sidebar” is populated with widgets, but no sidebar is visible from front-end or customizer.

Thanks for your prompt response. The problem turned out to be a Jetpack conflict. If you have “Lazy Load” enabled it turns off all image display (or at least it did with me).
After I went through several themes to see if it was a theme problem, I started going through plugins. Lo and behold, everything works perfectly with “lazy load” turned off under media handling. Thanks anyway. This is a great plugin for my purposes!

I, too, am experiencing this. Does anyone have a fix?

I can confirm this behavior and perhaps add some detail. Running WordPress 4.7 on all sites. I admin a system that comprises 3 MU installations and 3 Stand-alone installations.
Updating from the “UPDATES” page, not from the “Plugins” page.
Problem occurs on STAND-ALONE installations bulk updating from “UPDATES” page.
Bulk update of 4 plugins, 2 plugins.
Updating individual plugins from “Plugin” page works fine.

MU installations bulk update just fine for entire installation and from individual sites. This is the opposite of the problem I would expect. ??

Never mind. I just needed to devote some time to it. After going round and round with GoDaddy support and them telling me I couldn’t set up a wild card subdomain, I went in and did it myself and now it is working fine. I just had to do a little IS shuck and jive. This one is resolved!

Sadly, here I am again. Problem is still not resolved. I did as suggested and removed the subdomain I had added via cpanel. Now I get what appears to be a parking page (not godaddy’s parking page) and any attempt to log in results in a 404 error. This is becoming very frustrating.

I have “subdomain” set to “true”.

My main site is choctawcanyon.com

I go into the Sites panel in the network and add horizons.choctawcanyon.com.
I get the results previously described. I get “Future Home of Something Cool”
and cannot get to dashboard.

Never mind, guys. The plugin “Enhanced Text Widget” solves the problem via the check boxes in the widget itself. If no results are returned by the query..you don’t see anything. Great and thank you.

found my own solution. Adding the following to .htaccess works.

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]

I have the same problem and just found the solution. It is indeed a redirect problem. Add the following line to your .htaccess.

# uploaded files
RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]