Can't get rid of blogroll widget on Oxygen theme

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  alexissenior · Member · May 19, 2012 at 9:03 pm

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  I’m using the Oxygen theme, which I love, but I don’t want the blogroll or meta widgets on my blog and I can’t get rid of them. How can I remove them?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · May 21, 2012 at 12:21 am

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  The blog linked to your username is wearing the Pilcrow theme. Please post an active link starting with http:// to the blog you are referring to wearing Oxygen. When we activate a theme there is a default sidebar display that appears to contain actual widgets. When we go here > Appearance > Widgets and select the widgets we want to use, open the widgets, click “save” and close” inside them, then our widget choices override the default display.

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  menschmonthly · Member · Jun 4, 2012 at 10:56 pm

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  I’m actually having the same problem. I tried to save and close the widgets and it didn’t override the default.

  The widgets I can edit are on the left-hand side and the “blogroll” defaul is on the right.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 4, 2012 at 10:59 pm

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  The left hand side (black background – white text) is a Secondary menu.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 4, 2012 at 11:00 pm

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  @menschmonthly
  Please post an active link strating with http:// to the blog in question.

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  menschmonthly · Member · Jun 4, 2012 at 11:04 pm

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  @timethief and @lexilovely
  The sidebar in question was labeled the “secondary sidebar” and it was blank. When I added a widget to it, the defaults were overridden and both the blogroll and meta login info were removed.

  problem solved! thanks for your help though.

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  timethief · Member · Jun 4, 2012 at 11:08 pm

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  Hooray! That’s great news. Thanks for sharing it. :)

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  lucaslubin · Member · Jun 18, 2012 at 5:36 am

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  There doesn’t seem to be a way to have NO widgets at all.. does anybody know how to make it so there are no widgets on this layout?

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  theradiocrytic · Member · Jun 18, 2012 at 11:55 pm

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  I believe you have to put a wiget into one of the areas then deactivate it. I did something like that for one of my blogs about a year ago and it mostly worked, although I think there were a few wigets still there. Try that and see what happens.