Removing all the junk

Your theme probably has default sidebar things like Categories installed. These aren’t necessarily widgets and often theme designers set them to show even if you have no widgets.

To get rid of them (and the WordPress Theme tagline) you’ll need to directly edit your theme templates. The two template files you’re looking for are header.php (for the theme tagline) and sidebar.php.

Within header.php, you’re looking for

<?php bloginfo('description'); ?>

Delete this, and you’ll have no more tagline.

Sidebar.php is a little more tricky. If you delete the wrong thing here, you could really mess up your theme, so be careful. Basically, you’re looking to delete everything between <ul> and </ul> tags.

If you’re unsure, come back and tell me what you’ve found and we’ll see if we can’t get rid of it.

Thank you very much for your help and quick response. I’ll get back here after I’ve tried what you’ve suggested.
Paul ??

Ok here what I found:

(1) Under options in the admin I was able to delete the “Just another WordPress Theme”.

(2) In the “Atahualpa” folder I could not find a sidebar.php file.
(3) In the root “WordPress” folder there is a sidebar.php file but it didn’t have any

tags. I renamed the folder temporarily, to see if that had an effect. Nope

Thanks,
Paul

Oh yeah, forgot about the admin options! That would work.

Let me go and grab a copy of the Atahualpa theme and I’ll take a look.

Okie doke, this theme comes with a custom options menu. Go to ‘Appearance’ -> ‘Atahualpa Theme Options’ then look for the blue ‘Sidebars & Widgets’ box.

Uncheck all the boxes under ‘LEFT sidebar: Display on:’, scroll down and uncheck all the boxes under ‘RIGHT sidebar: Display on:’, scroll down and set the ‘Left Sidebar Width’, ‘Left Inner Sidebar Width’, ‘Right Sidebar Width’ and ‘Right Inner Sidebar Width’ to 0, then scroll to the bottom and hit save changes.

That should do it (least it did on mine).

It did! I still have the rss sybol. the “Posts, Comments and a search box on the upper-right corner.

But now I don’t have login! This great almost what I want but How do I display just the loginin with nothing else a user could click on?
Thanks

Ok I activated the left side bar under options activate the login widget but it has “entries and “comments” I would like to get rid of. Also the post and comments and search bar at top right corner are still there.
Thanks,
Paul

OK, to get rid of the search box, go to the Atahualpa theme options again, then click on ‘Style and edit Header area’. Scroll down until you find ‘Show search box?’ Change that to no. Save changes.

Then go to the RSS Settings options, scroll down and set the ‘Show Comment Feed icon?’ and ‘Show Post Feed icon?’ to no. Save changes.

As for just having your login details showing, one solution would be to set the ‘Left Sidebar Width’ to 200 again, then go to Widgets and drag in the Meta widget to the Left Hand Sidebar.

This would leave you with a left sidebar that only had your meta options (like login).

Otherwise, you know you can get to your login page directly? If you go to https://www.your-blog-site.com/wp-admin, that should take you direct to your login page.

Heh. Got there before me.

Alright! Almost there! The 2 feeds icons and text have to go! Can you help?
Thanks,
paul

Okie doke. Go to plugins, select ‘Add New’ then search for ‘Customize Meta Widget’. Should be the first result. Install it and activate it.

Then, go to the ‘editor’ option under ‘Plugins’ and, from the drop down list on the top right hand side, Next to ‘Select Plugin to Edit’ choose ‘Customize Meta Widget’.

In the main editor window, look for:

#WIDGET BEGINS HERE. PLEASE EDIT AS MUCH AS YOU WANT

Remove EVERYTHING under there and replace it with this:

?>

<ul>
<li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
</ul>
		<?php
#WIDGET ENDS HERE.
echo $after_widget; 

}
?>

Bingo. Only your login option will show.

Edit: You can just copy and paste the code above.

Ok I reread your prior post and removed the feed icons however, the feed links are still in the logon widget. Could I remove them as well as increase the height of the logo space on the front page by modifying a css and/or a php file?
Thanks,
Paul

To change the logo space height, play around with the Atahualpa Options -> Style and edit Header area. You can set the height of the logo space in there.

Using the plugin described above will get rid of your unwanted Meta links.

Specifically, if you add:

height: 200px

to the ‘Logo Area: Styling’ option within the Atahualpa Options, that will give you more logo room. Change the 200px to however much you want.

oops, replying to your last post on the front page I have this:
Meta
< ul > < li >Log out< /li >

I think the

and
• are list tags, but why are they appearing on the front pag?
  Thanks,
  Paul