The story so far: yesterday was exasperating, because things remained the same—I couldn’t get my custom widgets (like Feedjit and Alexa) to display in themes other than Tarski. I was so desperate that I foolishly “reinstalled” WordPress 2.7 (I made backups first). No luck, the problem still lingered. Until I came upon this page in the WordPress.com forums (big thank yous to the members who posted there). Turns out that it could have been a bug in the latest release of WordPress.com (I was told it was fixed) and I had the suspicion that it was present in WordPress.org too.
Anyway, this is how I solved it:
- I activated the Tarski theme, and went to the widgets page.
- I deleted all my custom widgets. I copied the codes to Notepad before deleting them.
- Once this was done, the deleted widgets appeared on the left-hand side, with a clickable add link. This meant that I could add them to other themes. I tried it out and it worked. Success at last!
This had me a little perplexed; I’d used Tarski before in WP versions prior to 2.7 without any problems. Or could it have been the latest version of Tarski (2.4) conflicting with WP? Whatever it is, I will be a little more careful whenever I play around with themes; I was fortunate that I was able to solve this problem.
Tags: Tarski, widgets, WordPress, WordPress 2.7