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Someone please help me with wordpress

by pheonix44
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I am trying to create a blog. I want to get rid of the archives widget on my sidebar but I cannot get rid of it. Also how do I get rid of the subpages under the archive menu. I would appreciate it if anyone helps me.
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  • Profile picture of the author RobinSkeen
    The archives widget should be easily removed in your widgets menu. Open it and click the 'remove' button.

    Subpages under the archive menu can be "removed" by making the menu a drop down menu. That will also be in the widget menu.
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    • Profile picture of the author pheonix44
      when I go to the widgets menu and click remove it is still there. It says add and that is it, it gives no other option. When I hit remove and go back to my front page the archive menu including the child page with the month under it is still there.
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    • Profile picture of the author Tim Whiston
      Also you don't have to roll with widgets. I know they're en vogue and all at this time but you can choose to run your sidebar without them if you like.

      Personally I can't stand those things - they screw with most of the themes I apply.
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  • Profile picture of the author pheonix44
    But how do I get rid of them. I have the basic layout. With the sky blue header. I cannot get rid of the black archives category. Do you know how to do it, because when I go to widgets all I see is a list that says add but when I push the remove button it is still there.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rob Whisonant
    Some themes have defaults in their sidebar. Add a txt widget to the sidebar and see if everything else disappears. If that happens, then just add the widgets you want.

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    • Profile picture of the author BFMedia
      Or if all else fails, just open your sidebar.php file in the editor, find the code for the archives thing, delete it, and save.

      Of course, copy the sidebar.php code before you start messing with it, so that if you mess up, you can copy and paste a good one back in there if you screw something up
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      • Profile picture of the author ExRat
        Hi,

        I presume this is wordpress on your own domain hosted on your own hosting account?

        when I go to the widgets menu and click remove it is still there. It says add and that is it, it gives no other option. When I hit remove and go back to my front page the archive menu including the child page with the month under it is still there.
        Three things to check, that may seem obvious to some, but are worth checking.

        1. When you click 'remove' are you THEN clicking on 'save changes' on the right hand side?

        2. When you view the 'front page' are you refreshing the page, also doing a hard refresh (ctrl & F5) and also clearing all stored browser data - just to make sure you're not still viewing the old version from browser cache?

        3. Have you tried removing the archives widget, adding some other widget and then clicking save changes?

        The reason I ask 3. is because if you remove all widgets the blog will revert to it's default non-widgetised format, which may include 'archives'. Therefore, if you remove archives from active widgets, but add some other active widget, this should flip it into 'widgetised' mode without archives.
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  • Profile picture of the author Quentin
    Ex Rat has hit the nail on the head.

    Once you remove you have to hit save.

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  • Profile picture of the author keithng
    Based on what you have described, the archive is coded out of the "dynamic sidebar" loop in the sidebar php file. You need to find the archive code, and remove them manually. You can easily fix it by just visit the theme editor ( in Appearance Menu, if you are using 2.7).

    If you found to hard to go about, change theme!

    Good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author Droopy Dawg
    Some themes will not allow you to remove the archives widget... you may need to edit the php coding that displays that widget.

    You may need to find a php guru to help with that. I know a little about php, but I don't want to scre up your blog
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  • Profile picture of the author Bishop81
    If you still can't get it figured out, send me a pm and I'll fix it for you for no charge.
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  • Profile picture of the author urbanned
    Did you trying deleting it through the editor section on wordpress? Are you using a custom template or default wordpress templates?
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  • Profile picture of the author swayman
    I agree with quentin maybe you forgot to hit save, it happened to me before.
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