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Chosen page sidebar never appears on site

A sidebar chosen for a page does not appear on the site, often after switching themes, so the default sidebar shows instead.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

4 public reports · first reported 16 October 2017 · last reported 16 December 2025

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Site owners using a per-page sidebar plugin report that the sidebar they select in the page editor does not show up on the live page.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.