How To Remove Error and Locked Blogger Widgets

Unremovable widget is a very common problem of Blogger users. You may encounter this problem when you change your template and some widgets of this new template is unremovable. Some unremovable do not affect your template at all, it will not appear in your blog page, but they are still annoying  when you manage your widgets.

Locked Widget and Normal Widget

There is two kinds of unremovable widgets. The first is "error widget", which is not show any option when you edit it. The second is "locked widget", which can not move to anywhere and do not have Remove button when you edit it (such as Navigation and Attribution widget). This post will show you how to remove these kinds of widgets in very easy step.

STEP 1: 

You need to know what is widgetID of this unremovable widget. Go to Layout, click Edit corresponding to this widget. At popup window, look for widgetID at the end of URL bar, select and copy it.

Select and copy widgetID

STEP 2: 

At Blogger Dashboard go to Template > Edit HTML (Remember to Back up your template first). Search with widgetid which is copied at step 1, you will recognize code line like this:

<b:widget id='PopularPosts1' locked='true' title='Popular Posts' type='PopularPosts'/>

Code for one Widget in Blogger Template

2 Options To Remove Unremovable Blogger Widgets:

Option 1: 

In this code line, change the parameter locked='true' to locked='false', then click Save template. After that, go to Layout and you will notice that this widget is not locked anymore, now you can move or remove it easily.
Before Option 1

  

and after that:

 

Option 1 is very safe and easy to do. But, option 1 is not helpful with error widget, you still can not remove this, that's why there is Option 2.

Option 2: 

After Step 2, remove all <b:widget... to </b:widget> section then Save template.

Remove b:widget section

With Option 2 you can delete any widget you want, but be careful, any mistake can make your template not work well.