October 30, 2016 at 12:51 pm
Hi, all, One of my sites *Login to see link used to reside on blog.website.com and I moved it up to website.com yesterday because I’m going to start adding content to that site. With that change from blog.website.com to website.com, I had to go through and edit some widgets that referred to blog.website.com as well as change a slider. My husband went through the database and updated all other things from blog.website.com to website.com and it all works fine — the links to pages, etc are good. After the change, the sidebars were working but I decided to shut off unneeded plugins that I’m not using on this site: jetpack, as well as two plugins that work with showing or not showing widgets in sidebars.
Now, the only problem we have is likely unrelated to this change but the sidebars aren’t working/showing widgets. I went in and made a new custom sidebar and put new widgets there. Also emptied the sidebars of anything strange and confirmed that I had shut off the plugins that show particular widgets on particular pages. In theory, it’s pretty simple but the sidebars aren’t showing, just the space is left where the sidebar should be.
The footer widget areas–they’re fine and show widgets. I moved a widget down into the footer that wasn’t showing in the primary sidebar (recent blog posts) and it shows up fine down there.
Do you have any idea what this could be?