Many times when you install a new template on our blogger template to make it look more attractive or the template has something special etc , there are unnecessary widgets which are pre-installed in the template some of them can be dragged and Deleted but some are there where there is no option to drag and delete the widgets . those widgets that cannot be draggedfrom the blogger layout tab are called 'Locked widgets' , so today we have a much needed article for every blogger i.e 'How to delete Locked Widgets '.
How does a locked widget looks like ?
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| Locked Widget |
a locked widget(In the above case Popular posts) usually do not have the facility of dragging and is fixed at a place in your template.
So here are the steps to make the Widgets Normal :-
- Login to your blogger account .
- Go the blog in which you want to make changes .
- Go to the template tab .
- Go to edit html
- click on 'EXPAND WIDGET'
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| Expand template |
- After that you have to search for the name of the widget (You can do this by pressing Ctrl+F) after you find the name of that particular widget(in this case Popular post).
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| coding |
- You will find some line (near the name of the widget) such as:-
<b:widget id='PopularPosts2' locked='true' title='Popular Posts' type='PopularPosts'>
<b:includable id='main'>
- change the 'locked='true' to 'locked = 'False' .
- Thats it , Save your template , go to the layout tab and have fun your widget will change to a normal widget .
Please comment below if the Trick in not working , so that we may know !
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