Title: Stuck Widgets?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Stuck Widgets?

 *  Resolved [johnbilbo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnbilbo/)
 * (@johnbilbo)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-widgets/)
 * Hi all:
 * I have two stuck widgets on my page (gadgetgumbo.com). The two on the bottom 
   of the right sidebar (categories and meta) show that they are not installed but
   are still show on the page. This might have come from some of our moving around
   from wp.com to a hosted site (just a guess).
 * In the Widgets page, I can add Category and Meta but then it shows as duplicates
   to what is already there. When I turn them off, it reverts back to the two stuck
   widgets.
 * Do I have modify the theme code to remove them?
    Thanks for any help. John B.

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 *  Thread Starter [johnbilbo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnbilbo/)
 * (@johnbilbo)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-widgets/#post-965627)
 * bump.
 * Any suggestions??
 *  [@mercime](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mercime/)
 * (@mercime)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-widgets/#post-965638)
 * You have six dynamic “areas” where you can replace original codes with widgets
   to (check your dropdown in right column of Design-Widgets Panel)
    – sidebar_full–
   sidebar_left – sidebar_right – footer_left – footer_middle – footer_right EDIT–
   categories in sidebar_left and meta in sidebar_right
 *  Thread Starter [johnbilbo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnbilbo/)
 * (@johnbilbo)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-widgets/#post-965700)
 * Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve check (via the web interface) that all regions
   are empty.
 *  Thread Starter [johnbilbo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnbilbo/)
 * (@johnbilbo)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-widgets/#post-965749)
 * Bump. Any more suggestions?
    I would hate to have to poke around in the code 
   but I can if needed.
 * thanks for any help
 * John
 *  [@mercime](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mercime/)
 * (@mercime)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-widgets/#post-965754)
 * > Do I have modify the theme code to remove them?
 * Yes, if you want to remove them, the delete the following lines from your sidebar.
   php
 *     ```
       <div id="sidebar_left">
       <ul>
       <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('sidebar_left') ) : ?>
       <li><h2>Categories</h2>
       <div class="sidebarbox">
       <ul><?php wp_list_categories('show_count=0&title_li='); ?>
       </ul>
       </div>
       </li>
       <?php endif; ?>
       </ul>
       </div> <!-- Closes Sidebar_left -->
       <div id="sidebar_right">
       <ul>
       <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar') || !dynamic_sidebar('sidebar_right') ) : ?>
       <li>
       <h2>Meta</h2>
       <div class="sidebarbox">
       <ul>
       <?php wp_register(); ?>
       <li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
       <li><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer" title="This page validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional">Valid <abbr title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</abbr></a></li>
       <?php wp_meta(); ?>
       </ul>
       </div>
       </li>
       <?php endif; ?>
       ```
   
 *  [@mercime](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mercime/)
 * (@mercime)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-widgets/#post-965755)
 * EDIT – double posted …
 *  [mikelizzio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikelizzio/)
 * (@mikelizzio)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-widgets/#post-965766)
 * I’m having similar problems. Mercime’s reply to the OP was helpful, but I wonder
   if anyone could help me further.
 * I understand that these widgets are built into the author’s original code.
 * I like the layout of all the sidebars, but I’d like to remove ALL built-in widgets,
   and choose them from scratch.
 * I am a novice at coding, but I understand how it works. I just wouldn’t know 
   what code to look for.
 * Could someone explain how to find the code I’d need to remove for all the sidebars
   and the footer(s)?
 * Thanks,
 * Mike
 *  [@mercime](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mercime/)
 * (@mercime)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-widgets/#post-965768)
 * mikelizzio: If you are discussing the same theme noted above, you don’t have 
   to delete anything. Since all are dynamic sidebars, any widget you place in that
   sidebar will supersede or replace the coding placed by themer in said sidebar.
 *  Thread Starter [johnbilbo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnbilbo/)
 * (@johnbilbo)
 * [17 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-widgets/#post-965787)
 * mercime:
 * You rock. thanks so much!
 *  [fantux](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fantux/)
 * (@fantux)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-widgets/#post-965827)
 * On my installation, superseeding the builtin widgets doesn’t work. I added the
   Categories-Widget to my Sidebar, but the builtin one still shows up.
 * This would actually not be an issue, if the builtin widgets would offer support
   for internationalization – which the non-hardcoded Categories-Widget does.
 * See [http://www.delta-phi.net](http://www.delta-phi.net) for an example. Switching
   to pixeled-de is no longer a viable option as I am trying to run a multi-language
   blog.

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