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Can I customize the sidebar/footer area at the bottom of the blog? Can I add/remove “Meta” or “Pages” or “RSS” etc.?
Q: Can I customize the sidebar/footer area at the bottom of the blog? Can I add/remove “Meta” or “Pages” or “RSS” etc.? Can I remove the sidebar/footer area entirely?
A: You can customize the bottom area sidebar/footer in your WP admin area, under Design (’Presentation’ in WP 2.3 and earlier) –> Widgets. Drag and drop things into the the two sidebar areas shown to override the defaults. Click on the little buttons on the right side of the draggable chunks to see advanced options.
If you want to delete the sidebar/footer area entirely, in your Theme Editor, go through your template files (index.php, single.php, page.php, search.php, archive.php, category.php) and look for and DELETE the line of code (near the bottom) that says
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
If you ever want to put it back, just type that line in again in each template file, right ABOVE where it says
<?php get_footer(); ?>
Related Post: Customizing font and link colors in the footer/sidebar area
Questions? Instead of emailing for support, leave a comment below so everyone can benefit from any clarification.
How do you change the text/font color of the links and text in the footer/sidebar?
Ganell » in your Stylesheet, look for line 110 which says:
div#sidebar_footer {
background-color: #F0F0F0; /* bg color of footer-sidebar area */
padding: 20px 0 10px 0; /* top, right, bottom, left padding */
}
add a line before the last “}” that says:
color: #ff9900;
Except use whatever six-digit code you want.
Thanks! That worked!
I imported from blogger and have way too many categories for them to be listed at the bottom in the “sidebar”. I am not quite sure how to remove the categories there but leave them on the navbar.
Regina, follow the directions in this post. Go to “Design” => “Widgets” and drag items into the primary sidebar ( = left column of footer) and secondary sidebar ( = right column or footer). Don’t drag in one that says “Categories”. Or, you can drag it in and use the little edit button on the upper right of the widget to turn it into a drop down menu. Play around until you have it like you want it.
I am trying to get rid of the blogroll and RSS feeds on the bottom of my blog. How?
I have erased the line “” from each section that I found it in but it is still there….. what now?
@Amanda: that’s what this post is about, read it again, it tells you how to do this.
@Jes: I’m not sure what you’re talking about. Could you clarify? Thanks.
@Jes: I sent you an email. you can’t type php in comments.
Jared,
I’ve removed the Blogroll link at the top of my nav bar, but now it’s still showing up at bottom. I tried playing around under the “Widgets” tab, but I’m finding all I can do with the Links:Blogroll option is “add” it. How can I delete that from bottom?
@Gail: you need to add everything into the sidebar except Blogroll to get rid of it. the theme will use the default primary (left) and secondary (right) sidebars (which include the Blogroll) unless you override them by dragging in (adding) widgets. so, just add to the primary sidebar everything you want on the left side of your footer, and add to the secondary sidebar everything you want on the right side.
it’s confusing, i know, but that’s how it works.
Thanks Jared! I managed to get that off, but noticed that my RSS feed is now saying it is “down.” Any idea what could cause that?
@Gail: did you use the built-in WordPress RSS widget? or something else?
I used the built-in one that you can add from the options in WordPress. I was wondering if there was some way I needed to “create” an RSS feed or stick it in the stylesheet somewhere? I don’t know it shows as an error.
(I even managed to add a Twitter widget with no problem, so I know my widget options work)
@Gail: hmmm.. shoot me an email, would ya?
This did not work for me when I deleted the line the template file codes. It didn’t delete anything from the footer/sidebar.
@Nadia: what’s your blog address so i can have a look?
Is there anyway to stop the footer/sidebar information from showing up in the bottom of the IE window.
@Tiffaney: i’m not sure what you mean. do you mean specifically something in the IE browser window as opposed to other browsers like Firefox? Or do you just mean how do get rid of the footer? can you clarify?
it looks like your footer/sidebar (actually it’s the sidebar) is completely gone to me…
by the way, you should not remove the <?php get_footer(); ?> line at the very bottom of your index.php file. if you did, you’ll need to put it back. it contains required credit links to ProPhoto and also WordPress needs that tag to function correctly.
All of my pages aren’t showing up.. is there a limit that the sidebar will show? Same with top nav.. im missing around 3-4 of them?
@tonee: are the pages that aren’t showing up ’sub-pages’? wordpress allows you to create parent pages and child or sub pages. these don’t automatically show up, i think.
I went through and deleted all the ’s b/c I didn’t want that bottom stuff at all. Then I realized maybe I need it in order to add a feedburner widget (I’m trying to include an area where people can sign up to be notified when I’ve made new posts). I’ve been following the directions (I thought) but I continue to not see what I think I should be seeing. I don’t understand widgets and sidebar/footer and the difference between deleting the ’s and going into design>widgets. I know it’s user error. I appreciate your help!
Clarification: on the last post before the ” ’s ” in the first and 2nd to last line, I’d posted “?php get_sidebar(); ?” but it disappeared.
@Amanda: if you delete the ?php get sidebar ? you won’t be able to use widgets. widgets are like individual things that appear in your sidebar. in the case of this theme, the sidebar is on the bottom.
so I just need to just go back and paste that stuff back in where I deleted it before and then I should be fine?
Okay. I’ve got my footer/sidebar back up and the email subscription thing is there (awesome!). But I don’t want anything else other than the email subscription link. How do I get rid of favorites, links, RSS feeds, and meta?
@Amanda: that’s what this post tells you how to do. reread it and the comments, and it explains it.
I read through it a million times and still can’t figure it out. I don’t want to delete it entirely so I ignored the instructions in the second paragraph. And the first paragraph (after the “A:”) doesn’t make sense. All that is over on the right (indicating it should be showing up) is text for the feedburner link. Nothing else is over there, however, I still have the following showing up in my footer that I want gone: RSS, meta, favorites, and links. I appreciate your help.
@Amanda: yeah, it’s confusing. i’ll try to restate it. the sidebar (for this theme it appears at the bottom of the blog) has a primary and a secondary section to it. in this theme, the primary sidebar is the left half of the big footer area. the secondary is the right half. what the theme does is it looks to see if you have customized any of the widgets in either the primary or secondary sidebars. if not, it adds in the default fields which include RSS, Meta, etc. so, if you want to get rid of those, you need to OVERRIDE the defaults by adding at least one widget into the sidebar you’re trying to fiddle with.
sorry if my explanation wasn’t good. if you still can’t get it, send me an email through the support tab with exactly what you’re trying to do and your WP login and I’ll take care of it for you.
Hi, I am needing help to get rid of the “site admin” on the bottom of my site. If I leave it on there people can get into my blog settings and change things.
@trina: actually, that’s not true. no one can log into your blog unless they have your user/pass. the reason you go straight in when you click that is because your browser has stored your user and pass combination.
that said, you can override the default sidebar widgets as described in this post and get rid of that site admin section
The show comments and add comment links from the bottom of my blog posts are gone…help? (And I hope you are having a good vacation!)
@Amanda M.: did your Ajaxd-WordPress plugin get deactivated somehow? Make sure it’s active and tweaked correctly.
my rss reader isn’t working. how do i fix it?
@Jerry Frazier: your RSS “reader” isn’t working? do you maybe mean your feed? i don’t do support for RSS readers (like google reader, bloglines, etc.)
i looked at your blog and feed and they seem fine to me…
I would like to upload a playlist from another blog I have… and place it at the bottom of this blog. Is that STILL possible or can I only upload single mp3 songs?
I’m guessing this isn’t the correct place to ask this, but you mentioned to contact this way vs email. So…
I have version 1.2 and recently created a facebook “fan page”. I am trying to figure out how to add a “find us on facebook badge” to my blog (I would assume it’d be in the footer section) and can’t figure out how to do it… if it’s even possible.
With version 1 of the prophoto template – can I have more than 2 columns in the footer?
Hey Stefan,You got me:)I will thing about it!
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