Title: Customize sidebar
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Customize sidebar

 *  [dantcal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dantcal/)
 * (@dantcal)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-sidebar/)
 * I’m using a theme I found a few weeks ago that is not listed on wp.org and everything
   is perfect other than the sidebar so I don’t want to change themes. The problem
   is that half the sidebar is great – contains three big links which is exactly
   what I need. However the latter part of the sidebar is one that only displays
   info upon clicking (i.e. there is a news link and only if clicked does the news
   info show). I want my sidebar (below the big links) to look exactly like the 
   default sidebar. I’ve tried doing some basic copying and pasting but I don’t 
   know exactly what files I need transferred over from the Default theme in order
   for this to function properly; I’m receiving an ERROR message using Firefox. 
   PLEASE HELP!
 * Site:
    [http://www.voicesforacure.org](http://www.voicesforacure.org)

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-sidebar/#post-1046229)
 * You can’t just copy over template files from the default theme to your theme 
   and expect them to work. The sidebar on your theme needs to be edited.
 *  Thread Starter [dantcal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dantcal/)
 * (@dantcal)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-sidebar/#post-1046231)
 * I tried just deleting the part I didn’t want in the sidebar. Then copying the
   part from the Default sidebar I did want into my themes sidebar. That didn’t 
   work. I didn’t transfer any files. I just thought I had to in order to make it
   work – which is why I’m here asking you guys.

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 * [css](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/css/)
 * [php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php/)
 * [sidebar](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sidebar/)

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 * Last reply from: [dantcal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dantcal/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/customize-sidebar/#post-1046231)
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