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BUGFIX - 3.4.3/3.4.4 - STEP-BY-STEP instructions for removing 'bad' NEW WIDGET AREA's

Version 3.4.0.1 of Atahualpa introduced the 'New Widget Areas'. However, there was a bug in the code that only allowed one new widget area to be created. And, you couldn't delete the widget areas. This bug persisted until release 3.4.3

With 3.4.3 you could now create use the new widget areas, but any 'new widget area' created prior to 3.4.3 was still in the database. The following program will correct this issue by deleting one row from the wp_options table.

Directions
1) BACKUP YOUR DATABASE
2) download the attached file and unzip it. It will contain:
a folder named 'bfa_widgetfix'
a file inside called 'bfa_widgetfix.php'
3) copy the file to the 'wp-content' folder on your server
4) run the program by typing in the browser address bar:
'http://YOURDOMAINNAME.COM/wordpress/wp-content/bfa_widgetfix.php'
NOTE: depending on how you insealled wordpress, you may not need the 'wordpress' portion of the address
You will see 'BFA_WidgetFix: processing complete' indicating it is finished.
5) view your site and REFERESH THE SCREEN TWICE.
this will recreate the row containing the 'new widget area' information without the artifacts from the pre 3.4.3 'new widget areas'
6) delete the program 'bfa_widgetfix.php' from the wp-contents folder on
your server
7) (optional) press the donate button on the bottom of the screen to reward me for coming up with this fix
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Very clever of you, JD. I was a bit nervous about running that SQL query you gave me, but it did work, and fixed the problem. This new solution should make it really easy for non-database wizards to accomplish the same thing. Your excellent support here has been well worth the donation I made directly to you.

Hi, I've run the fix above, but for some reason it seems to have removed my header image and screwed up the display of the logo?

(website is www.casakaleb.org)

Thanks for your help.

EDIT: Sorry, my fault - for some reason the permissions on the image files had got messed up... :(

I ran this script, Juggledad, and it did remove the first ever widget areas that I'd added back a few versions and had never managed to get rid of.

It also had one unexpected result. I had widgetized my whole front page last month, creating 10 separate new widget areas that appear only on the homepage (http://theagnonschool.org/). It did NOT delete those widget areas, but it did remove (or in some cases, moved around) the widgets that had been placed in those widget areas.

Fortunately, the removed widgets had been saved under Inactive Widgets and all I had to do was find them and drag them back into place.

I don't know if anyone else has or will encounter(ed) this, but once I realized what happened it was no trouble. It was little enough to do in exchange for removing those plaguey old no-longer-existing widget areas from the list on the Widgets page.

Thanks again.