Can't get rid of widgets

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  andrewrhamilton · Member · May 9, 2013 at 2:53 pm

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  Hi,

  How do I get rid of widgets that show up on my blog but not on my dashboard?
  My blog is http://clrforum.org/ The unwanted widgets are “SEARCH IT!” “RECENT ENTRIES” and “LINKS” on the right hand side in the Feature Widget Area.

  I tried entering in a blank widget, but it didn’t help.

  Thanks!

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  bookishbiker · Member · May 9, 2013 at 3:36 pm

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  It’s possible that those widgets came with your theme – they won’t show up in the dashboard in that case. According to this doc, if you manually add a widget, then the default ones won’t be used anymore.

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  bookishbiker · Member · May 9, 2013 at 3:36 pm

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  Sorry, I now see that you tried adding a blank widget and it didn’t help!

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  timethief · Member · May 9, 2013 at 3:46 pm

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  All the widgets provided by WordPress.com are here > Appearance > Widgets
  The documentation is here > http://en.support.wordpress.com/category/widgets-sidebars/

  Every theme has a default display of what appear to be actual widgets but aren’t. As soon as you select your own widget choices. Click to open each widget, configure where required, and click “save” and “close” in each widget that default display will disappear and be replaced by your choices.

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  andrewrhamilton · Member · May 11, 2013 at 2:15 pm

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  @timethief : I have had this blog for a couple of years now. The unwanted widgets are showing up on the blog in a widget area where I have added widgets I wanted. I understand the default situation you speak of but it doesn’t apply to my blog because I already have added widgets to that area, and they have been up there for two years. Last week I added another widget and these three unwanted widgets popped up on the blog. Unfortunately, they don’t show up on the widget page so I can’t get rid of them.

  Do you have any suggestions?

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 11, 2013 at 2:42 pm

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  Search it! etc., are in the “primary” sidebar. Add a blank text widget to the “primary” sidebar at appearance > widgets.

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 11, 2013 at 2:47 pm

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  See here http://intheoutbox.wordpress.com for the three sidebars identified on one of my test blogs.

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  andrewrhamilton · Member · May 11, 2013 at 2:51 pm

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  @thesacredpath: Thanks for your suggestion but as I stated in my original post, I already tried that.