Comments on: Fix WordPress Sidebar Widgets That Don’t Work

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 11:30:24 +0000

You will need to resize the banners on you own manually. Save the banner to your computer, resize it upload it to your site and then edit the theme to point to the image on your site with the URL pointing to where you want it to lead.

You can also try to use some code to resize the affiliate link but I forget how.

By: Victoria

Victoria — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:40:46 +0000

Hi Jeff,
This is such an old thread…I don’t know if you’re still answering questions. I have had a mysterious problem with my widgets…I can’t display any banner (affiliate) ads except the ones that are part of my theme. The text widgets will only allow 125×125 ads, misaligned. I can’t use ads that are bigger. I’ve contacted my theme creators & they were NOT helpful at all. So much so…I’m considering changing themes altogether (have had many issues with my theme…it’s getting really OLD!)
If you don’t wat to post my comment, please email me instead. I’ve spent hours trying to figure out how to fix my widgets to no avail.
Thanks!

By: CSS Gallery

CSS Gallery — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:06:51 +0000

Great info, thanks. I also have a blog which is a css gallery and I was having issues with widgets in the sidebar. This did the trick, thanks!

By: hair extensions

hair extensions — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 04:53:05 +0000

Great post. I’m started a new blog about hair styles. I have a similar kind of problem with my theme. I hope this will help me with the widgets part. I will try it out. Thanks for sharing the information.

By: eko

eko — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:32:40 +0000

finally… now my two sidebars are working with widgets (it was only one sidebar)
thank you so much….

By: CHIKO

CHIKO — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:19:58 +0000

thank you for the tips..it’s very usefull…

By: Busby

Busby — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:20:15 +0000

Thanks for your help.
regrads.

By: Andrew Campion

Andrew Campion — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:57:10 +0000

Sorry.. simple school boy error from a newbie. Was just a case of mistaken idirectory

I still have to play around with the widgets to get them to display properly and there is still something not right with the theme but at least the widget links work now.

It’s been 24hrs and I’m still learning
http://www.themedellinblog.com/

By: Andrew Campion

Andrew Campion — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:16:26 +0000

Okay,

I did the fix you suggested, and made a backup first and have the same problem as Nova.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ‘)’ in /home6/my_site/public_html/wp-content/themes/black-lucas/functions.php on line 4

I have the original file backed up but now I can’t get back into wpadmin to change it back. I have ftp’d the entire theme back onto the site and I still get the same error.

Yikes.. what did I do???

By: lifting

lifting — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:58:05 +0000

thank you for the information, it is very usefull, above all for persons as me that is new in the world of blogs