Sidebar setups vanish after migration or updates
Sidebar assignments and widgets vanish after site migration, plugin deactivation, or updates, and database restores do not bring them back.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 19 March 2019 · last reported 26 September 2025
What's going wrong
Site owners who move sites to new servers, deactivate the plugin for troubleshooting, or apply updates report that their sidebar setups disappear.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
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- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
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