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How to Customize Wordpress Sidebar
Wordpress, Blogging Tips July 10th, 2007
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- Select Presentation ->Theme Editor from the navigation menu
- On the Theme Editor page, you will see a list of “theme files” to the right of the page. Select the “sidebar” (sidebar.php).
- From here you can remove any unwanted sidebar widgets you don’t want to appear on you side bar, for example if you want to delete meta, then all you have to do is find the line that reads</li>
 <li id=”meta”><?php _e(’Meta:’); ?> or something similar and delete everything from there onwards to the last line that ends with <?php wp_meta(); ?>
 </ul>
NOTE: If you cannot save your changes, i.e there is no save or update button to do so and you see this message at the bottom of the screen “If this file were writable you could edit it”, It means you do not have the correct file permissions. To fix this problem you nee to chmod -777 wp-content/whatever-your-theme-is. Make sure the individual files are set and not just the folder.
As an alternative to theme editor you could consider using any FTP client like smartftp or FileZilla to edit, delete and upload files. It’s very easy to use, all you have to do is right click on a file name, click on View/Edit and the file is opened in a local editor such as Notepad or textpad. Make the changes, save the template and upload the file back and your done.
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[ # 3833 ] Comment from romzee [June 15, 2008, 4:13 pm]
it’s really working for WP 2.5.1 , thanks!