How to Remove Locked Widget from Blogger !!

I always say that I like Blogger.com for blogging among the all blogging platform. This is because of its flexibility. If you have developing knowledge then you can customize anything of blogger. But sometimes when we install custom template on our blog or in blogger default template it contains it contains some locked widgets in layout which can't be removed from layout option. In this post I am gonna show how to remove locked widget from blogger.

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If your are using Blogger default template in your blog then you might have seen Navbar and Attribution widgets don't have Remove button. This is because these widgets are locked. Blogger Layout is an option where you can find all widgets of your blog. If you don't want to display any widget then you can remove it from Blogger Layout option. But you can't remove it from here it is locked. To remove a locked widget, first you need to unlock that widget. Let's see how to do it...


How to Unlock Widgets in Blogger:

• First Sing into your Blogger Account and go to Dashboard.

• Then click on Template option and click on Edit HTML button. You will land on your blog's HTML page.

• Here in this HTML page find the Widget which you want to Remove. If that widget is locked then its code will be something like below...

<b:widget id='HTML1' locked='true' title='Widget Title' type='HTML'> </b:widget>
</b:widget>

• Now look at the above Widget Coding , Here locked='true' Attribute shows that the widget is locked.

• Replace true To false to Unlock the widget.

• Finally click on Save Template button to apply the change.

Now the locked widget will be unlocked and it will have remove button by which you can remove it.


How to Find Licked Widget: If you can't find the widget code in the HTML page then you should find the widget using its Widget ID. Let's see how to get widget id...

• Sign into your Blogger Account and go to Layout Option.

• Then click on Edit link of the locked widget and a popup window will open.

• Here in this window you will get the Widget ID from address bar. It will something like below image.

• Now Note down the Widget ID and go to Blogger Template option.

• Then click on Edit HTML button and find the using the Widget ID.

• Now Unlock the widget using the above method.

How to Remove Widgets from Blogger:

• Now go to Blogger Layout option.

• Then click on Edit link of the widget that you want to remove.

• Finally click on Remove button.

That's it. Now I hope can you unlock the locked blogger widgets and remove it very easily.

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