Comments on: Disable default WordPress widgets

By: Philip Arthur Moore

Philip Arthur Moore — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:46:57 +0000

An update for anyone else who stumbles upon this post: instead of using nice names for the widget unregistering line, use the ’slugs’ included in the newest versions of WordPress. So, for example, instead of using ‘Recent Comments’ or ‘Recent Posts’, use ‘recent-comments’ and ‘recent-posts’. You will find all of these on lines ~1400+ of /wp-includes/widgets.php (as of WordPress version 2.6.3).

Additionally, as far as I can tell, there is no need to add in the extra lines of code for the RSS and text blocks. Simply use unregister_sidebar_widget (‘text-1′); and it should work. Cheers.

By: tom

tom — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:40:05 +0000

Nice, would have been better if you had posted the code….heehee

By: Leonid Mamchenkov

Leonid Mamchenkov — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 14:14:19 +0000

Ian,

maybe it’s something to do with space, or capital letters… Don’t know, really. I haven’t been through WordPress 2.3 code yet…

By: Ian Stewart

Ian Stewart — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:49:37 +0000

For some reason this doesn't work with unregister_sidebar_widget('Tag Cloud');. No clue why. It doesn't appear any different in widgets.php. Otherwise, very cool! Thanks!

By: Leonid Mamchenkov

Leonid Mamchenkov — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:24:23 +0000

Dre,

I think it either works or not :)
which I guess is the right way to do UI. Why show something that doesn’t work?

By: Dre

Dre — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:22:38 +0000

What if you just wanted to make the title of the widget unclickable?

By: Leonid Mamchenkov

Leonid Mamchenkov — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:09:44 +0000

tawodi,

just remove the line, which disables the ‘Categories’ widget:

unregister_sidebar_widget(’Categories’);

Your Categories widget will be back and the behavior restored. Nothing is permanently removed. It’s all temporary, for as long as you have the code in place.

By: tawodi

tawodi — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:21:51 +0000

in my categories there was a box for each I thought it was really neat looking now they are just blog rolled I noticed it yesterday is this a permanent change or can I have them back the way they were???