Widgets emptying themselves after WP upgrade

[Pinky]

hi there

Initially I thought I was going a little crazy (that still might be the case 🙁 ).... however on 3 different sites over the last few days the widgets have emptied themselves.

I'll be looking at the front end and the site will look perfect, I go into the widgets and they'll all be empty apart from primary sidebar, so then I go to the front end again - and sure enough all widgets are gone.

Any ideas or thoughts?

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cheers

Pinky

[Susan]

Pinky - I've answered a couple of support questions over the past week about this - it appears to be a WordPress bug, where widgets will suddenly show up in the list of "inactive widgets", especially if you have previewed another theme...

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/27897

[Pinky]

Hi Susan

Thanks for that - is there a resolution tho.... I can't understand what's being said over there!

It's a little concerning that this has been going on for 3 weeks now.

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cheers

Pinky

[Susan]

As far as I know, there's no resolution - that was just providing the link to the changelog, so you would know that the bug has been identified.

[essaysnark]

That bug was supposedly fixed in 3.9.1 though there are some reports of similar issues still remaining when themes are being upgraded in conjunction with a WP upgrade.

[Pinky]

yeah certainly hasn't been fixed - it's driving me absoutely crazy!

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cheers

Pinky

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