This has popped up again. I haven’t touched the backend of my front page, but I have been working on the footer. The background:
I have an Instagram widget and a Twitter widget side by side near the bottom of my front page. When I upgraded to Enfold 3.9.2, I began having trouble keeping them in place. See the original thread for details. I thought I had this fixed. Tonight I was working on the footer – I changed it from 4 columns to 3, and now my social icons have moved up from my footer to where my Instagram widget was, Instagram is where Twitter was, Twitter has disappeared, and the footer is not displaying the correct content. Take a look:
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The social icons are supposed to be in the right-most column of the footer (where there is a long default menu), Instagram should be on the left, above the footer, and Twitter should be where Instagram is. ALL I did was change the footer from a four-column to a three-column layout, That’s it. Nothing else. Really very frustrated right now. Stopped cold to post this, not touching anything else til I hear back.
Thanks!
Stefanie
Hi stefaniesomers!
This is the expected behavior of WordPress. The Widgets act as one big giant list of items and each sidebar area is a grouping of elements in that list.
When you change the groupings the whole list is effected. This can happen from adding in plugin that creates a sidebar, changing the footer widget areas since it changes the grouping or adding a new widget area from a function.
Cheers!
Devin
That’s great Devin… how do I fix it?
The only fix is to go to your widgets and move the widget back to the correct sidebar area you want the widget to show in. This would be under Appearance>Widgets