Removing widgets

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  internationalcomparisons · Member · Oct 9, 2013 at 9:43 pm

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  Here’s my blog: spectrumofhopeproject.org

  I would love to have the “categories” and “archives” removed from the left side column and the “search,” “blogroll,” and “meta” removed from the right column.

  When i go to Appearance–>Widgets, there is nothing in my “primay sidebar” area, nor my “secondary sidebar” area. How do i get them removed? They’re destracting from what i want to feature on the site.

  I have oxygen theme in showcase page template.

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

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  justpi · Member · Oct 9, 2013 at 10:15 pm

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  On most themes including Oxygen, the sidebars aren’t optional, so they have to display something, so when you haven’t added any widgets yourself they display a small default set of widgets. You remove the default ones by adding the ones you prefer.

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  internationalcomparisons · Member · Oct 10, 2013 at 12:10 am

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  That’s terrible. Why are things on Oxygen that could be super easily customizable made to be entirely un-customizable?

  The cropping on the thumbnails and now the widgets in the columns. I’m starting to regret going with WordPress…

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  katrinaeschner · Member · Oct 15, 2013 at 5:23 pm

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  If you drop an empty text widget in the sidebars, it makes them empty of content.

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  internationalcomparisons · Member · Oct 17, 2013 at 7:45 pm

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  Aha. I’ll check on that. Thanks katrinaeschner.