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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, 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
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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.