Toppanel plugin: messed up widgets & widget areas in ENFOLD

Unfortunately this is not a bug but a wordpress limitation. WordPress saves the position of widgets with ids (the first widget area has the id 1, the second 2, etc.). If you remove a widget area wordpress will re-calculate/re-count all ids and now another widget area has the id of the previous widget area you deleted. On the other hand (if you add a sidebar area between existing areas) wordpress will increase the ids of the following widget areas. So the widget area with the id “2” will now have the id “3” and will also show the widgets of the widget area with the id “3” and so on.

Actually there’s no real workaround. You can either deactivate the plugin – then the ids will not change and the widgets work as expected or you can activate the plugin but then you need to re-configure all widgets and assign them to the new widget area. It also doesn’t make sense to change the order of the widget areas and to append them at the very bottom because as soon as you create a new “Enfold Custom Widget Area” the ids and the order will change again. However the good news is: as long as the plugin is activated the order of the widgets won’t change again.

Personally I’d drag’n’drop all widgets into the “Inaktive Widgets” area – WordPress then saves the configuration of the widgets. Then activate the plugin and drag’n’drop all widget back into the proper areas…