Widgets not appearing in customization menu

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  isabelletan23 · Member · Aug 27, 2021 at 2:37 pm

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  I want to delete two widgets that I see on my website, but they do not appear on my widget sidebar customization menu

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  staff-blorbo · Staff · Aug 27, 2021 at 5:15 pm

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  What are the titles of the widgets you want to remove?

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  isabelletan23 · Member · Aug 28, 2021 at 5:50 am

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  Categories and archives

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  supernovia · Staff · Aug 29, 2021 at 12:19 am

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  Hmm, it looks like those are the only widgets in the sidebar. If you add another widget, do those two go away?

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  isabelletan23 · Member · Aug 29, 2021 at 12:23 am

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  Yes, when I add another widget the two widgets go away. When I remove the new widget, the two widgets reappear.

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  supernovia · Staff · Aug 29, 2021 at 2:17 am

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  Some older themes are design that way, because if there are no widgets, the page feels out of balance. And they aren’t designed to intelligently change widths based on whether there are widgets or not.

  If you want to keep this theme and don’t mind the imbalanced feeling, try creating a new text widget, but leave it blank and save that.