What happened to my Inactive Widgets?

Inactive widgets are just normal widgets from the “Available widgets” list, which have been put in the “Inactive” section in order to keep the data they contained.

What probably happened is that you dropped one of them over the “Available widgets” space and it dissapeared. But don’t worry that doesn’t mean that the widget is gone, widgets cannot “dissapear”, in the worst case you just lost the data of the widget.

For example if you have a text widget in your colum, with the title “My cool widget” and the text “Hey check this out”, and you decide to temporarly remove it from your website, but wish to keep the text data, you would drop it to the “Inactive” space. You can then drop it back whenever you wish to use it again with the same text. BUT, if you remove it completely, then there will always still be the “Text” widget available in the upper space “Available widgets”.

Hope that helps.

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