A deleted widget is still appearing on a home page
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I have created this site http://rmdsmirror.wordpress.com/ from an export file. I am trying to configure it to be a mirror of the original site and need to create widgets and configure them to appear on pages. A deleted widget is still appearing on a page which happens to be the home page. I have tried everything to get rid of it, e.g. changing the config of the page via the theme menu, changing the page to use a different template to the Home Page template and still the thing persists to show. Worse is that I tried to emulate the problem on the live site and the thing is showing there too. Though I have hidden it with CSS.
I feel like I’m going mad!
Any assistance gratefully received.The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Hello there! Could you please tell me which widget you’re hoping to hide? Thanks very much!
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It is the google calendar which is appearing on the bottom right of the page. However instead of appearing as a typical google calendar it is appearing as if it is part of the page template.
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Hi, I have checked this further this morning (Irish time) and it definitely appears to be the case that the page template called ‘Home Page’ is corrupted in some way as if I use it for any page it displays the three panels as configured in the theme but also displays the additional content which was in the widget. Is there anything I can do to fix this other than either hiding it via the CSS or scrapping the site and rebuilding it by reinstalling the theme?
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Hi there. Thanks for the additional details. Very helpful! The Google Calendars widget is installed in your Right Footer. You don’t need any CSS to remove it. Here’s the process:
- Click Appearance → Widgets in your site’s Dashboard.
- Click on the down arrow next to Footer Right.
- You will see a Text widget installed. Click on that, and then click Remove.
That should do it.
You can populate that Right Footer with another widget, if you like, or leave it as is. Please know if I can help further!
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Alas Robyn, it as not the widget in the Right Footer that is the problem. This is showing correctly. Have a look at the Home Page again. The problem is the big white box between the three featured topic pages and the footer area, which contains the stuff which is in the calendar widget but in a tabbed format. I put in the calendar google stuff in a text widget in the right hand side (not the footer) and it appeared on the Home page template / page as this grotty object, I then deleted the widget but the grotty object remained. If you create any new page and use the Home Page template this format persists, i.e. you get three correct columns and a grotty object below them.
Cheers.
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John, Ok, I’m going to look for this object for you. Please confirm that I’m looking at the correct widget this time:
Thanks a lot! Looking forward to hearing from you.
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All right John, Let’s zap it.
- In your site’s Dashboard, please click Appearance → Customize.
- In the right-hand menu, please click Widgets: Footer Right.
- You will see a text widget in that Footer. Click on the little down arrow. When the box expands, click Remove.
- Then Save your changes.
Let me know how it works out for you! Many thanks.
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Robyn, sorry but this is the same advice that you gave me yesterday. The widget that is in the Right Footer is correctly displaying in the footer area. Just to make it explicit, I have added a label to it “THIS IS THE CALENDAR IN THE FOOTER”.
The thing which is causing the problem is not this widget. The problem appeared when I added a text widget containing the Google calendar code to the Right sidebar widget. When I did this the grotty object appeared on the Home Page. I then deleted the widget in the Right sidebar and expected the grotty object to disappear but it didn’t. Instead it persisted and appears to have somehow corrupted the Home Page template as if I use this template on any page the three columns ( ABOUT RMDS, MARKET ENTRY and MARKET PROCEDURES) correctly are shown together with the grotty object underneath them.
I added the Calendar text widget to the Right Footer long after the problem with the grotty object happened.
I think that the page template is screwed up. Any ideas?John
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Oh John, I am so sorry about that. I misread the code inside the widget.
Let’s do this for real, shall we?
In your Dashboard, please click Appearance → Customize.
In the right-hand menu, please click CSS.
In the CSS Revisions box, please paste the following underneath all existing code:
.home-tabs {
display: none;
}Save your changes.
That should do the trick. It’s not a bug in the home page template that was causing that object to appear. It’s simply that the template is programmed to show 3 content blocks. We just needed to hide it.
Sorry I didn’t understand the issue initially. I hope all works well for you now! Cheers.
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Hi Robyn, thanks for that but I had already done that on the original site or at least something similar, i.e. I had put in
/*This is to get rid of rogue widget displaying on home page*/
div.home-tabs {
display: none;
}I realise now that the grotty object was not showing the google calendar widget, rather it was showing post items associated with the Uncategorised category. However I cannot see why it would be. As you said above the page template is configured to show three content blocks and it is showing them correctly. However in the theme configuration, there is nothing populated in the Category for Tabs, just as there is nothing the Category for News.
Anyway, I have used the CSS as the workaround to hide the offending object and I susspose that’ll have to do.
Thanks for your assistance.
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Hi John. It seems like an oxymoron, but WordPress.com sees Uncategorized as a category. That’s why those tabs wouldn’t disappear automatically.
Glad the CSS fix accomplishes your goal of hiding that object.
Thanks so much for your patience! Best to you.
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