[Support request] Widgets not saving

[Eran]

Hi
I got a weird problem.

After editing the left sidebar widgets, and seeting them ok on the site, after a minute with a refresh it goes back to default and I have only the category widget there.

[David]

Hi,

is this happening only on a particular page? If i view the site then i see a left sidebar with a lot of widgets.

[Eran]

it happened at least on the homepage. but it didn’t happen again so I dunno…

[David]

Generally its cache related. Let us know if it re-occurs.

[Eran]

Ok. So it just happened again. What I noticed, though, is this:

all of my widgets moves from the “Left Sidebar” area to the “Right Sidebar” area (I’m talking in the Appearance -> Widgets screen).
Because my site is RTL, I need the sidebar on the left. I can drag all the widgets from right to left and all is good, until the next time it happens.

[David]

wow thats an odd one. I might need to take sone advice on this one, in the meantime have you tried the usual debugging techniques ie. Disable plugins, remove caches etc.

[Tom]

Hmm, nothing should be moving widgets from one area to another in WordPress. It could be a plugin you’re using maybe?

[Eran]

Could be, I have no idea. Here’s a list of the plugins:

Acunetix WP Security
AdSense In-feed Placement for WordPress
Advanced Ads
EWWW Image Optimizer
GP Premium
Jetpack
MailChimp for WordPress
Send Images to RSS
SG Optimizer
WordPress Database Backup
WP Instagram Widget
WP Recipe Maker
WP Rocket
Yoast SEO
Elementor + Pro
Akismet

[Leo]

Most of those look good but you will need try #1 here to see if you can find the problematic one:
https://docs.generatepress.com/article/debugging-tips/

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