How to Remove or Delete Locked Widgets on Blogger Correctly?

 If you have a blog on Blogger, you must have noticed when changing the template that some widgets cannot be deleted through the Layout page. Today, we will explain to you, why there a widget's on Blogspot blogs without the delete button? Then we will explain: How to remove the widget correctly?

So, you may be asked yourself why there are these locked widgets?
Actually, When a web designer creates a blogger template, he sometimes has to lock some important tools and block it from users, like (The Main Menu, The Blog Posts, The Comment Widget, and others..)
Such tools may be deleted by the user through the "Layout page" (unintentionally) and damaging the template.

But some other widgets may not be needed and must be deleted from our Blog to be fast and cleaner, as:

• Navbar and Attribution widgets.
• locked Adsense widgets.
• HTML/JAVASCRIPT widget.

Now, let me show you how we can "remove" the locked widgets easily:

1. First, Backup your Template: Go to "Theme" >> Backup Button.
2. Then, from the same "Theme page" >> Open the "Edit HTML".
3. Press CTRL+F to open the search box.
4. Type/Or Select the locked widget which you want.
5. Look at the code line, find this locked='true'.
6. Simply, change the word "true" with "false" to unlock the widget.
7. Click Save.

Let's explain How to Remove the widget on Blogger step by step.
1- How to Make a Backup to your blogger template:
You will need to go to the Theme page, then from the dropdown arrow, you will find the Backup Button.

2- Opening the Edit HTML on blogger:
On the same Theme page, from the same dropdown arrow, you will find the EDIT HTML Button.

3- Open up the search box:

Here you need to click first in any place inside the codes and then click Ctrl + F from your keyboard to show up the search box.

4- How to find the widget ID:
There is more than one way to find the Blogger Widget ID, the sample way is to go to the Layout page and open the widget, you will find their ID on the top URL barre.

5- How to unlock the widget:

Using the search box, put the widget ID and click Enter, after that you need to focus on the code line, you should find the tag like this locked='true'

all you need to do is to replace the word 'true' with 'false', and save the template.

Now go back to your Layout page, make a simple refresh with the F5 button and scroll down to the widget, you will find the Remove button, click on it, and we're done :)

If the explanation above is not clear, you can see the following video to understand how to remove the locked widget in detail:

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