getting rid of widgets in sidebar

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  halltrad · Member · May 16, 2009 at 11:04 pm

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  Hi, I’m just getting started. Is there any way to get the original widgets that came with my template out of the sidebar?

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

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 16, 2009 at 11:28 pm

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  We need a link to the blog please.

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  halltrad · Member · May 17, 2009 at 12:38 am

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  oops! http://normhall.wordpress.com

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  halltrad · Member · May 17, 2009 at 12:41 am

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  Hi there Sacred path! The Shepherd’s Child here jumping in to help halltrad……how come we can’t log in on two different tabs as ourselves on one computer? When i try to go to my dash, I get his….we’re working on my computer.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · May 17, 2009 at 5:36 am

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  @halltrad (OP): Could you make the question clearer? You mean having no widgets at all or having a different set of widgets?

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  halltrad · Member · May 17, 2009 at 12:15 pm

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  I mean: to get rid of a bunch of widgets that came automatically on the template, like About this site, Search, and Categories, and so on. I want to simplify the page, and just a put a widget or two of my choice.

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  halltrad · Member · May 17, 2009 at 12:29 pm

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  Huh! We just put in a second “Pages” widget to see what would happen, and all the ones we didn’t want disappeared! Well, i guess we’re all set? Many thanks for looking at it.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · May 17, 2009 at 2:03 pm

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  Most themes come with a small preset sample of sidebar items. Those items are not some of the widgets available under Appearance>widgets but artificially generated from the theme’s underlying files. When you add any widget yourself, this sample is cancelled, and you just continue adding all the widgets you really want.