title: Wordpress widgets are disappearing in admin area
body: <p>My company is being paid to optimize a Wordpress site, I am trying to make some modifications that should be showing up in the widgets section (forms, testimonials etc). </p>
  
  <p>With their custom theme, in the widgets section, on the right hand side where it lists all the sidebars, if I expand any, they are empty. If I drag a text widget over and add "Test", and then Save, it will show up on the front end, but once the widgets page refreshes, if I expand the sidebar again, it shows empty.  The widgets show up under inactive widgets but not to the right where I should be able to edit them.</p>
  
  <p>I have tried this using the default theme and the widgets show up as expected.  I don't know enough about Wordpress to know where to look to fix the widgets disappearing from the admin sidebar section.</p>