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WordPress 2.5 seems to be more particular than early releases to coding errors. One possible result is the loss of sidebars and footers. Elezend asked about this very problem on Lorelle on Wordpress, then again at Brad’s Tiny World. Elezend’s footer which contains MyBlogLog and Blog Catalog displays just up and disappeared upon upgrading. Personally I think upgrading on day one of any software upgrade is a bad idea, but that is from years of going WTF and looking at frozen computer screens.
This is going to be a multistep fix and some trial and error So lets get started.
- The first thing I want to try to make sure this is not a general theme problem is to remove the MyBlogLog and Blog Catalog coding
Okay, I removed.
^Actual footer
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I am glad we got this working for you so. For those wondering the solution for the moment was to go back to WordPress 2.3 until the theme can be fully upgraded to comply with 2.5. Wordpress 2.5 apparently wrote something to the theme during the install. Naki told me using the same theme that was not working in 2.5 also didn’t work when it was used in 2.3. My conclusion was something was written to the theme after as the original theme was loaded onto the server and it boot up just fine showing the footer and mybloglog widgets.
let this be a lesson to everyone if you have a customized theme you love, always make sure you have a clean safe backup copy.
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