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How to Remove Locked Widgets in Blogger

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Have you ever used a blogger template consisting of widgets that are irremovable? Blogger is a flexible platform and you can easily do whatever you want. One if its feature is that you can upload your custom templates to make your blog friendly and beautiful. There are thousands of free and paid templates available on the web, which you can use for your blog. Usually all the widgets in blogger are removable, you can easily add or remove widgets. But have you ever noticed that sometimes after uploading a custom template, some widgets are locked in the layout section and you can't remove them, just like header and blog posts widget. You're unable to delete these widgets because these widgets are locked. Recently one of our users asked us that How to Remove Locked Widgets in Blogger. So today in this tutorial we'll show you that How to Remove Locked Widgets in Blogger.

How to Remove Locked Widgets in Blogger

Step 1. Log in to your Blogger Account >> Select a Blog
Step 2. Go to Template >> Backup your Template >> Edit HTML >> Jump to Widget and choose the widget which you want to remove (Note: Read the 2nd part of this article to learn how to find a widget in HTML Editor)
Step 3. You'll be jumped to that widget's coding. In your widget's coding you'll see locked=true if that widget is locked

<b:widget id='Navbar1' locked='true' title='Navbar' type='Navbar'>

Step 4. Replace true with false and hit Save Template button

<b:widget id='Navbar1' locked='false' title='Navbar' type='Navbar'>

Step 5. Now go to Layout >> Click Edit on that widget >> Click Remove button at the bottom
And you're done!

How to find Widget Code in Template Editor

Step 1. Log in to your Blogger Dashboard
Step 2. Go to Layout and locate the widget
Step 3. Hit the Edit button below that widget a popup window will open
Step 4. In the URL of that popup which would somewhat looks like this

https://www.blogger.com/rearrange?blogID=5715141813565760436&action=editWidget&sectionId=sidebar-right-1&widgetType=null&widgetId=HTML10

Step 5. The widget Id of that widget is just after widgetId= which is HTML10.
Now go to Template >> Edit HTML >> Jump to Widget and Select the widget with Exact ID

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