Problems With Widgets Sticking In WP 2.8
The other day I was building a site and something strange happened. My widgets would not move – they would not drag or drop anywhere. After scratching my head, changing my theme and deactivating plugins I found the problem. In WordPress 2.8 there is a little problem with widgets (probably caused by some javascript) where they sometimes stick.
There is an easy fix which I tweeted about the other day
All you need to do is go to Appearance/Widgets and click the link for Screen Options
Now the options box will open up and you’ll see this link
Now just click the link to enable accessibility mode
Now when you go back to your Widgets you will see that they now have a link on the side that says "Add" click that to add to your sidebar 
Now you just need to configure the widget by choosing which sidebar you want to add it to, and add the position where you want the widget to appear in the sidebar
Simple fix to a v. frustrating problem
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Readers' Comments
Thanks Leanne,
This was a very helpful post sometimes the obvious isn’t always clear.
Steve Fisher on December 1st, 2009 at 23:20
I am quite new to wordpress. but what you write in this blog is really good and very informative. I think it will help me in the future. Thanks for the great work
Hannah Yamaha on March 28th, 2010 at 17:31
Thank-you SO much for this work-around
Cindy on April 7th, 2010 at 2:36
Hi
Thank you so much for your easy to read and informative advice. I followed ypour instructions and the widgets came up with ‘edit’ so I edited each one as to right or left sidebar and what position, 1, 2 etc and saved
However it didn’t do the trick and I am still stuck with all of the widgets in the left sidebar for some unknown reason!
Joy on April 23rd, 2010 at 12:09
change your theme and see if it works. If not, deactivate each plugin one by one and test
admin on April 27th, 2010 at 0:02