Widgets showing I don't want

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  christophermacmurray · Member · Aug 16, 2013 at 3:14 pm

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  Have the twenty-eleven theme and when I use the sidebar it automatically displays the words “Archives” and “Meta>Site Admin and Log Out”. I don’t know how to get rid of it. It doesn’t show up on the widgets page.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Aug 16, 2013 at 3:25 pm

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  Those widgets are the default set which come with Twenty-Eleven. Just add a widget of your choice and they will go away. See here:

  Widgets and the no-widgets paradox

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  christophermacmurray · Member · Aug 16, 2013 at 3:31 pm

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  Thank you!!!!

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  christophermacmurray · Member · Aug 16, 2013 at 3:33 pm

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  If I want to include and email address in the widget area is it possible to apply a link to it?

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  timethief · Member · Aug 16, 2013 at 3:41 pm

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  Posting your email address in a form that can be harvested by spam bots is not wise. See here > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2013/07/23/is-your-email-address-a-spam-magnet/
  And here http://en.support.wordpress.com/links/text-widget-links/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/text-widget/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/links/image-links/