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1. guessingagoodusername
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I've got a couple of themes going, but each of them seems to have different stuff in the sidebar. Like, "Clean Home", has this big read title across the top of page (it's part of the sidebar) that I can't make go away. I look in the Widgets admin page, and the sidebar looks like it's empty. How does that work? Do themes typically have default widgets that you can't get rid of without working at another level, like in PHP?

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   If you can't drag and drop them, they're not widgets. What you're describing sounds like it's part of the theme's template code. So, yes, you'd need to have at least a beginner's knowledge of PHP and/or WordPress template tags.

3. guessingagoodusername
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Well, I would think they are widgets because I can alter the behaviour by dragging a widget over (the text widget, actually). But if the sidebar in the layout page is empty, the text widget is still there with it's annoyingly bright red text. Thanks for the hint, though. I'll sniff around in the php to see what's up.

4. viceng
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   the url to your site would be helpful....

5. guessingagoodusername
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Sorry. I'm a little new to WP and how to diagnose problems. I'm at http://www.whereelse.ca/cac/. As it happens, I have the "offending" theme running at the moment so you can see what I'm dealing with. I cannot make that bar go away, I can only empty it by dragging the text widget into the sidebar and putting no text in it.

6. viceng
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   i'm getting an error when I go there

7. guessingagoodusername
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Crap! Can't even get my own folders straight. Too many ideas. It's cnc not cac. Sorry!

8. guessingagoodusername
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   BTW, the world isn't going to end if I can't figure this out, but it's hard to imagine that each theme should be a unique challenge. I've looked through the php mountain, and can't really find any indication of where a theme's default widgets are declared.

9. viceng
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   in your style.css file at around line 101,,

   you can just add css line

   #blurb {
   display: none;

   .
   .
   .
   }

   This will not display the blurb.

   I'm not sure what they are talking about with respect to a widget..
   you should contact the developer....It's probably used for a featured text of some sort

   Hope this helps

10. guessingagoodusername
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    That did it. I could have looked around for a week and not found this. Thanks for your excellent help!

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