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Duplicate Sections In The Sidebar - How Did They Get There?

Posted on August 2, 2008
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Had a great question from someone who had multiple ‘Categories’, ‘Recent Posts’, ‘Recent Comments’ etc. showing up in her sidebars. Upon examining her sidebar.php file (this was using a Prosense theme), there were no duplicate sections of code. This only left one explanation…Widgets!

Widgets can be great for adding things really easily, but you do lose a fair amount of control by using them. In this case she had widgets set up to display those sections in her sidebars, as well as the hard-coded sections in the sidebar.php file. This caused the duplicates.

Here’s how you fix it.

To remove those widgets, go to your WP-admin (assuming Wordpress 2.5.1 or later) area and go to Design>Widgets then make sure the left sidebar is selected (top right of screen - drop down box for sidebar - probably called ’sidebar1′). Then expand the unwanted widgets and choose ‘Remove’ for each. That’s it.

Some people love widgets, but I normally don’t use them as i can get much more control over where i put things by doing it manually - but that’s just me ;-)

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