Remove widgets
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I want to remove widgets from the siebar. I followed the screencast here & went back to my blog. It says I do not have widgets. Clearly there’re somethings occupying the sidebar. How can I get rid of them?
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Either you’ve picked a theme that doesn’t have widgets but has those things built-in, OR you haven’t tried adding any widgets of your own. Try adding one and seeing if the rest vanish. If that’s the case, you can then just take out the one you added. When you first fiddle with the widgets, the default set vanishes.
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The widgets you’ve got at the moment are the default set of the theme you’re using, and it’s as raincoaster says: if you add any widget (AND CLICK SAVE CHANGES), the default ones go.
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Pana,
Thanx. Yeah they disappear; but you gotta replace hem with something else. I’ve tried thsat, saved, and then deleted the new ones; the old ones reappeared. *sigh* Maybe another theme.As long as I’ve got your attention, do you know if you can simply build a theme with Dreamweaver and save it as a WP theme? How hard or undoable would that be?
Thanx in advance.
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You’ll need the CSS upgrade in order to build your own theme. It isn’t recommended unless you have knowledge of CSS.
Also, you could just save a blank text widget, I think that might work.
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Lizii’s idea is right in general, but it won’t do in this case: Contempt has nothing to separate the sidebar from the rest of the main blog area, so it encloses most widgets in rectangles. If you put a blank widget you end up with a blank rectangle instead of nothing. The RSS widget will do in your case.
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Sorry, I didn’t know that about the contempt theme. :)
Yes, a blank RSS widget works too :)
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I am having trouble banishing a widget. More than an hour ago, I deleted the “search” widget because it was positioned over one of my page titles. I want them more than I want the widget. Well, I saved, looked and the darned thing was still there. So I removed it again, saved the changes and the thing is still sitting there gloating more than an hour later. ditto my avatar which I changed 3 hours ago. What gives? Is this a busy time of day and so the changes take longer to appear?
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@rciagrad1 – Can’t help without a link to your blog.
You’ll need the CSS upgrade in order to build your own theme.
This is a bit misleading. You really can’t build your own theme here at wordpress.COM. What you can do is change the look (via CSS) of any theme available in your dashboard. This includes Sandbox, which is very much a blank slate.
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Oh, dear. Sorry vivianpaige! I thought I was asking a theoretical question. You can see that the search box is still there and that it is superimposed on the tab (RCIA). http://rciagrad1.wordpress.com/
In the interests of full disclosure, I should mention that I changed themes today which is why I had to do some cleaning up. Everything was fine on the old page– I had the search box and all my pages just the way I wanted them. I switched to something a little more visually appealing.
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The search box at the top of the Mistylook theme is not a widget. It is coded into the theme and the CSS. You would have to have the paid CSS upgrade and some experience with CSS in order to remove it and as I remember, you end up having to change things in three places in the CSS.
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Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, there is no way you can move that search box without the CSS upgrade. It is built into the theme.
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Thanks, very much for looking. I guess I will try another theme and see if I can find something aesthetically appealing, which will bend to my will …
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hi there new to the whole thing, but just found the filtering system on the themes page very useful.
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You really can’t build your own theme here at wordpress.COM. What you can do is change the look (via CSS) of any theme available in your dashboard. This includes Sandbox, which is very much a blank slate.
Viv, fellas,
Thanx for the feedback. Now that Ive submitted that on-line portfolio and have some time, one of my next task is to learn some CSS from a new Dreamweaver how-to book I’ve bought. For the time being, does anyone out there know someone who’s tweaked Sandbox? Yes, I’ll start a new post about this, too.Thanx in advance,
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