Trouble with Treba and sidebar action

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  lauraprudhomme · Member · Aug 15, 2011 at 4:03 am

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  I am building my wordpress and chose the theme Treba. I cannot figure out how to activate the custom categories in my sidebar. With this theme I needed to customize my categories using a widget(?). In the process, I deleted the original widget. Can I get that back?
  Help me:)
  Laura

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  thesacredpath · Member · Aug 15, 2011 at 4:11 am

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  Just add the categories widget into the sidebar. A category will not show in the widget though until you have at least one published post assigned to it.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Aug 15, 2011 at 4:12 am

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  A note on the widgets. Before you have added any to the sidebar, what you are seeing is a sample set generated by the theme itself. Once you add a widget to the sidebar, the sample set will disappear. You then simply add the widgets that you want and arrange them by drag and drop.

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  lauraprudhomme · Member · Aug 15, 2011 at 4:23 am

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  Thank you for getting back to me so quickly. None of this is really making sense to me (I’m such a novice) and I think I erased the original widget to boot. I can’t find it anymore in the Appearances>Widgets menu. I’ll keep working with it.

  Thank you

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  thesacredpath · Member · Aug 15, 2011 at 4:31 am

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  You cannot erase or delete widgets. You can make them inactive, or take them out of the sidebar, but you cannot “delete” them.

  Go to appearance > widgets and drag the categories widget from the “available widgets” area over and into the sidebar.

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  lauraprudhomme · Member · Aug 15, 2011 at 4:31 am

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  I’d like to delete the wordpress and start from scratch. Is it true that I won’t be able to use the same wordpress title?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Aug 15, 2011 at 4:33 am

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  Do NOT delete the site, yes that is true, and it really isn’t necessary.

  Go to appearance widgets and remove all the widgets from the sidebar. Click on the right end of the title bar of the widget and it will open and then click the “remove” button.

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  lauraprudhomme · Member · Aug 15, 2011 at 4:38 am

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  okay. done;)

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  lauraprudhomme · Member · Aug 15, 2011 at 4:43 am

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  i am trying to post my bio and my teaching schedule in the sidebar. so, i don’t exactly need them to be posts. when i used the category widget they appeared as posts. is there a better alternative?

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  lauraprudhomme · Member · Aug 15, 2011 at 4:45 am

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  thank you for your help. i will put it to rest for tonight and reopen with a fresh mind tomorrow;)