Removing the Stallion Default Widgets from WordPress

Comment on WordPress Widgets Tutorial by SEO Dave.

The Stallion banner ad is a default widget, all the sidebar items are defaults that are meant to be over written when you add your first widgets to the left and right sidebars. The default widgets are there so a site works right away, but it isn’t meant to be left with the defaults, there’s some awesome Stallion widgets under Appearance >> Widgets that can make a site unique. You must try out the “Stallion SEO Posts Widget”, that adds the widgets with the thumbnail images (you can add multiple Stallion SEO Posts widgets with different settings).

Quite a few customers have this issue of not understanding how default widgets work so in the next update I’ve added notices explaining what to do to remove them. This is what you’ll see when a users is logged into a Stallion site and no widgets have been added (your normal visitors won’t see this):

On the Right sidebar

You should setup widgets under “Appearance” >> “Widgets”, after adding your first widget to the “Right Sidebar” widget area this message and the default widgets (“Recent Articles” and “Recent Comments”) will be removed and only the widgets YOU add will be shown (go build a unique right sidebar). You must add at least one widget to the Right Sidebar. Note: Only logged in users see this information message.

On the Left Sidebar

You should setup widgets under “Appearance” >> “Widgets”, after adding your first widget to the “Left Sidebar” widget area this message and the default widgets below (“AdSense Ad”, “Categories”, “Links”, “Meta” and “RSS Feeds”) will be removed and only the widgets YOU add will be shown (go build a unique left sidebar). You must add at least one widget to the Left Sidebar. Note: Only logged in users see this information message.

Did you find that enough information to direct you to Appearance >> Widgets and at least add one widget to the Right Sidebar and one widget to the Left Sidebar so you understood the act of adding the widgets removed the defaults? If so my work here is done :-)

David