Why is nothing showing up on my sidebar?

mariadeasy · Member · Nov 27, 2017 at 1:38 pm
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Hi,

Could someone please help? I recently installed a new theme on my blog: Bloger. I chose it specifically as I wanted a sidebar and my last theme didn’t have one. I want to be about to display an author bio and mailchimp opt in form on every page on the sidebar. When I go in to Appearance – Widgets and move over the items and I want and click “save”, nothing happens on the site.

Does anyone have an idea why this is not working?

My website is: http://www.cantillonkitchen.com

Thank you so much in advance!

Maria
avydun · Member · Nov 27, 2017 at 1:47 pm
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Can you check the conditional tags for visibility? WordPress.com has an option for handling widget visibility. You can read about it here. https://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/conditional-widget-visibility/

It helps to check if your widgets are set to be visible in all the pages you want it to.

I hope this helps. Feel free to get back if you have questions and I will be keen on helping you through it!
avydun · Member · Nov 27, 2017 at 1:49 pm
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One more thing. I happened to see that your site http://www.cantillonkitchen.com/ is a self-hosted WordPress (WordPress.org) site and is not a WordPress.com site.

Note that the current community forums we are on is for discussion related to WordPress.com sites.

Never the less, the conditional widget visibility works for self-hosted WordPress (WordPress.org) sites too. I hope the article I shared earlier by WordPress.com sets an example of how you can configure widget visibility on your self-hosted WordPress (WordPress.org) site.

Let me know how it goes!
mariadeasy · Member · Nov 27, 2017 at 4:06 pm
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Hello,

Thanks for taking the time to reply. Really sorry that I posted in the wrong area. I’ll bear that in mind next time.

Thanks for the link. I can’t see any “visibility” button to expand the widget so I’m still lost :(

Thanks,

Maria
avydun · Member · Nov 27, 2017 at 4:56 pm
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The visibility button should be shown when you click on the widgets you have added. This is one example of how it looks. https://imgur.com/a/VUGOX

Do you see something like this when you click on the widgets that you have added to your self-hosted WordPress (WordPress.org) site? (on the backend – on this link http://www.cantillonkitchen.com/wp-admin/widgets.php to be precise)

Also, it’s encouraged that you post in self-hosted WordPress (WordPress.org) community forums https://wordpress.org/support/ in the future.
mariadeasy · Member · Nov 27, 2017 at 9:32 pm
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Hi,

I still see nothing at all saying “visibility” to added widgets.

Thanks anyway.
avydun · Member · Nov 28, 2017 at 4:33 am
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I am sorry things are not working as expected.

I suggest that you post this on self-hosted WordPress (WordPress.org) community forums https://wordpress.org/support/

Thanks.

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