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  j128 · Member · Aug 13, 2009 at 11:54 pm

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  Hi,

  I’m using the new iNove theme for my blog, http://theworldisquiethere101.wordpress.com/, and I’m trying to figure out the widgets. While I want to add some, I want to keep the “random posts” but I don’t want the tag cloud.

  There isn’t yet a support article for this theme, so I’m wondering: what do I do?

  Thanks.

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

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  thesacredpath · Member · Aug 14, 2009 at 12:17 am

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  The sidebars are:

  top full-width: north
  Middle half-width: west (left) and east (right)
  bottom full-width: south.

  The top (north) default theme-generated sample widgets (before you add anything) are the random posts and the tag cloud. The only way to keep that theme-generated random posts widget is to not put anything into that north sidebar, and you will have to live with the tag cloud.

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  j128 · Member · Aug 14, 2009 at 12:39 am

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  Okay, thank you for your help.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Aug 14, 2009 at 12:49 am

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  You’re welcome.

  It’s too bad that that “random post” widget isn’t a real widget available for insertion like the other widgets.

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  t3ck · Member · Aug 14, 2009 at 1:00 am

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  or you can shut the side bar off by going to the theme’s options section!!!

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  j128 · Member · Aug 14, 2009 at 2:44 am

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  thesacredpath – Hopefully WordPress.com will consider making it a real widget in the future. Making the tag cloud a real widget, at least for the iNove theme, would be great too if users didn’t want it.

  t3ck – True, though for me the sidebar’s main functionality is for the widgets and readers being able to navigate through the blog easily. I’m not sure how I could work without using a sidebar.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Aug 14, 2009 at 3:13 am

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  The tag cloud is a real widget. It is in the available widgets section at appearance > themes. What is missing is a “random post” widget, which is actually unique to this theme. There is at least one other theme that has a unique widget, but I can’t remember which theme it is.

  The following code, when put into a text widget, produces a link to a random post from your blog if that would help you in any way. It doesn’t display the title of the post, but will pull up a random post. If this would work for you, you could then add a text widget to the north sidebar, which would make the theme’s random post and tag cloud widget disappear and then your “homemade” random post widget would appear there.

  <a href="http://theworldisquiethere101.wordpress.com/?random" title="Click here for random post">Feeling lucky??? Click here for a random post</a>