How do I removed the various widget-y things at the bottom?

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  sebanks1972 · Member · Mar 30, 2014 at 12:01 pm

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  Hi there,

  I’m using the McKinley theme for a writing portfolio and I don’t want the website to look like a blog. I want it to look like a website.

  Therefore, I don’t want this:

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  And I don’t want this:

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  I also don’t want visitors to have the ability to “Leave a Reply” at the bottom of each page.

  I would greatly appreciate it if someone could tell me where I go to remove these features?

  Thank you!

  Sarah

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  timethief · Member · Mar 30, 2014 at 7:40 pm

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  How do I removed the various widget-y things at the bottom?

  All themes here will display a default display that appears to contain a sample set of widgets in the sidebar and/or sidebar when you have not yet added any of your own. Go to Appearance > Widgets and add the widgets you desire and configure them and the default display will disappear. If you don’t want any at all place a Text widget without any content at the top of the sidebars/footers.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/
  For more widget tips see here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/08/02/8-hot-wordpress-com-widget-tips/

  And I don’t want this:
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  Disable them from displaying in your RSS Feed here > Settings > Reading
  Disable them from displaying at the bottom of posts and pages > see here and know they do not display by default > http://en.support.wordpress.com/sharing/

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  timethief · Member · Mar 30, 2014 at 7:41 pm

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  I also don’t want visitors to have the ability to “Leave a Reply” at the bottom of each page.

  All WordPress blogs by default have comments open on all Pages and Posts. You can enable and disable comments on free hosted WordPress.com blogs on this page > Settings > Discussion

  Discussion settings is where you set up defaults for comments.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/settings/discussion-settings/

  You can override the default settings and enable or disable future comments on any individual post or page.
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/enable-disable-comments/
  See also for faster ways:
  http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/comments-off-1/

  Note: By default, new blogs on WordPress.com will have the Discussion hidden. You can reveal it by clicking on Screen Options http://en.support.wordpress.com/screen-options/ on the top right corner of your Admin page, and checking the box that says Discussion so the module is included. http://en.support.wordpress.com/modules/#list-of-modules

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  sebanks1972 · Member · Mar 30, 2014 at 9:26 pm

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  Thanks for all the helpful info!

  Sarah

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  timethief · Member · Mar 30, 2014 at 9:31 pm

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  Hi Sarah,
  Your welcome and best wishes with your blog. :)