Title: Basic Website Themes?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Basic Website Themes?

 *  [tepe123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tepe123/)
 * (@tepe123)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-website-themes/)
 * Hi, I am looking for a theme that looks like a regular website or a way to modify
   a theme to look like a regular website. I need a theme with a basic head footer
   and sidebar navigation. Basically where there are no widgets shown. Is there 
   a way to modity the tags so that the menu shows up in the sidebar? Is there a
   way to remove the display of all widgets? Or are there any specifc themes that
   will do what I need?
 * I know this is sounds all out of wack but any help is much appriciated.
 * Thank You

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 *  Thread Starter [tepe123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tepe123/)
 * (@tepe123)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-website-themes/#post-1029523)
 * does anyone have any info?
 *  [rughooking](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rughooking/)
 * (@rughooking)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-website-themes/#post-1029574)
 * I’m still new also, but I think if you add a text widget which will wipe all 
   the widgets in the theme. Then when you remove the text widget it will remove
   the sidebar.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-website-themes/#post-1029592)
 * Removing a text widget shouldn’t remove the side bar. What it should do is cause
   the default, widget-less, side bar to be displayed.
 * [@tepe123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tepe123/)
    What exactly do you
   want to show in the side bar? Widgets are just a method of adding specific dynamic
   content to a side bar, so it might just be a case of choosing the right widget.
 *  Thread Starter [tepe123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tepe123/)
 * (@tepe123)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-website-themes/#post-1029619)
 * [@esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * I want the site navigation to show up in the widget.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-website-themes/#post-1029661)
 * Most themes display some form of site navigation on their side bar but most tend
   to show a range of navigation options such as Category lists, Recent Posts, posts
   by date etc. If you want to just display WP Pages, try downloading a widget-ready
   theme that you like. Then you can either:
 * 1. Edit the sidebar to remove everything except the call to list pages, then 
   upload and activate the theme.
 * OR
 * 2. Upload and activate the theme ‘as is’ but then activate the standard Pages
   widget in your sidebar (via Admin/Appearance/Widgets) which will remove everything
   except a list of all published pages on your site.
 * Hope that helps.
 *  Thread Starter [tepe123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tepe123/)
 * (@tepe123)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-website-themes/#post-1029662)
 * hey esmi thanks! but is there any way that I can add a CSS style navigation to
   my sidebar?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-website-themes/#post-1029674)
 * The navigation style you have in your sidebar is really limited only by your 
   imagination and your skills with WordPress and CSS. 🙂
 * What kind of navigation did you have in mind?
 *  Thread Starter [tepe123](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tepe123/)
 * (@tepe123)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-website-themes/#post-1029686)
 * Hey I am really just trying to move the navigation from the headers menu into
   the sidebar and off the header, so that its basically changed from horizontal
   to vertical. I was guessing that I would have to move the tags in the header.
   php file to a text widget in the sidebar? But im not even sure what tags I would
   have to move? Or if there are any plugins to do something like this?
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/basic-website-themes/#post-1029695)
 * There’s no plugin that could handle this as far as I’m aware. It’s just down 
   to editing header.php and sidebar.php – moving the appropriate code from the 
   former to the latter. You’ll possibly have to make some CSS changes too.

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