Hi,

Thanks for responding. Yes. I am trying to hide the widgets from specific pages. I want to hide the "foodgawker" and "10 recent posts" (which I call "hot right now" on my blog) from the blog's home page. I was able to control which pages which widgets appeared on before. But since I updated wordpress I cannot control the pages the are visible on. I have wordpress 4.1 installed. I am not getting any error messages. But even when I select the "hide" from "front page" option, the widgets still appear on the front page.

thank you!

Hello notacurry,

Thank you for your response. I do need a bit more information from you. I have a WordPress 4.1 installation but do not see where I can toggle widgets for display on specific pages. Is this a plugin of some sort? If so, please tell us the name so we can test it. If not, please provide the steps you normally follow to toggle the widgets for a page.

Kindest Regards,
Scott M

Hi Scott,
This is the widget toggle feature that comes with jetpack. Because I have this feature activated, when I go to appearance->widget, I am supposed to be able to control which page/post any widget appears on by clicking on the "visibility" tab under each widget. But it is not working as effectively.

Thanks!

Hello notacurry,

Thank you for the additional information. I have installed JetPack onto my 4.1 installation. I followed the directions you gave and can see exactly where you should be able to control the visibility of the widgets. I tried various combinations and was able to hide/show all default widgets without issue. Since it is working with default theme and installation, my next guess would be that it is either the theme or a plugin interfering. The easiest way to test for plugin interference is to disable the plugins and check to see if it works. if so, then reactivate them one at a time, testing in between. Once you reach a failure, then the last plugin you activated would be the culprit. It may just need an update itself.

To test for the theme (though unlikely) simply switch to a default theme like twentyfifteen and see if the issue remains.

Kindest Regards,
Scott M