Hi.

I lost all the sidebars settings after updating to 3.7.24. They got back to a default wordpress installation.

I tried exporting and re-importing settings and this did not work. I also try to save all the different settings after updating and this did not work either.

Reverting to version 3.7.23 solved the problem.

Any suggestion? thank you.

Same problem here. Everything else seems to work fine, but this affects all posts and pages. I hope they issue a fix pronto. Seems clear this update did not undergo careful testing, as that's an elementary problem, immediately visible.

I knew this was going to turn out to be an issue.

WordPress created a new requirement for themes - dealing with widgets - that had to be included in themes or your theme would fail the review and not be approved. And it effects your widgets.

If you go to your widgets page, you should see all your widgets in the 'inactive widgets' area - you can just drag them back to the sidebars.

Why does no one issue an alert on this before the upgrade goes out, or accompanying the upgrade? Easier to move and reinstall my widgets at that point than to revert to the previous theme, move the widgets, install the new theme, etc.

Why does no one issue an alert on this before the upgrade goes out,

How? Do you come here before doing every install? do you go to every plugin's page to see it there is an alert before doing an update?

You do a full database and file backup before doing ANY update so you can revert in case of an issue...right?

I feel your frustration, I am bothered when A change I make effects others especially when the change is mandated by WP. This is not the first tie a WP 'decree' has come down that causes ripple effects. What bothers me about this one is that people were arguing against it becasue of the ramifications and WP did it anyway...sigh

Many thanks. Relatively painless, and now all's well again. Some online searching indicates that this should be solvable within Atahualpa -- some mdofication of the theme templates. Should we expect that in the next update, or will we have to go through this again?

I just update and of course the side bar stuff disappeared... but!
If you just go into the Widgets area there will be a new entry of Inactive Sidebar and your widgets will be there.

Just decide which new sidebar you will be using then drag the old widget to that one and everything is back to normal.

Originally Posted by geezergeek

Exactly how do you "revert to the prior version"? A search for that here at the forum brings up nothing.

This is the link I used:
https://wordpress.org/themes/downloa....zip?nostats=1

You have to download the file on your local computer. Then you have to connect via ftp to your website dir, and replace all the "new" atahualpa content with the one in your local 3.7.23 folder. Hope this helps.

EDIT: just fund this! it is supposed to import / export widget settings, but have NOT tried yet. Have no time now:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/widget...-importexport/

@geezergeek

Should we expect that in the next update, or will we have to go through this again?

No, this is one time 'issue'