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paulvoermans – I just had this problem and found
<? endif; ?>
at line 37 in functions.php

changed it to
<?php endif; ?>

and plugin has activated ??

alchymyth,

Just wanted to say a huge ‘thank you’ for the last line of your comment, you saved the day.

You don’t have to delete everything though just

i:0;s:20:”__return_empty_array”;

and subtract 1 from the first integer after a:

I just realised that I have another website using simple sidebars on the same test server and that one works fine.
What is different between the two is that the site which throws up the error message has a sidebar with an id of 0 which cannot be edited or deleted.

I looked in the ss_settings field in the database and found that the first part of the field had

a:5:{i:0;s:20:”__return_empty_array”; …. etc

at the beginning, so I changed this to match a working sidebar setting and the errors have disappeared

I appreciate what you are saying, but switching off error reporting isn’t necessarily an ideal solution, although it will help while I am just making cosmetic changes to the website.

Hi Ron , Just thought I’d chip in as I have just set up a local test version of my website using EasyPHP and get the exact same error messages as tditmore (apart from the pathnames, obviously)

Debug was set to false in my wp-config

Live site server is running PHP 5.3.18 Local Servver is PHP 5.4.12

If you want me to provide you with any other clues I’d be happy to help …

I mnaged to get round the problem by updating all domain references except the ones for the image widget in the options table.

Then, going through the dashboard to the widgets area I opened up each instance of the image widget and clicked save twice, which made the image re-appear. A quick check in the options table showed that the url of the image had been updated.

If I tried to make this change directly in the table, then the widget would disappear completely from the widget area.

Hopefully this will give someone enough clues to enable this to be sorted out a little more elegantly in future.?

I just came here looking for the answer to the very same problem