Take links and words off sidebar

edit your theme’s sidebar.php

If the theme you are using supports it you can use widgets to change the sidebar. It is under design then widgets.

Thanks for comments but that doesn’t remove them under design/widgets. I have read about something saying go to file includes/widgets in directory but can’t see how to do it.

you do NOT have to edit any core files to change what you see in your sidebar. whatever you read, wherever you read that, you misunderstood, or its simply wrong.

content that is displayed within a theme, is a result of widgets, like hyper said, or additions to the theme files themselves.

Steve,

You’ll need to edit your site’s theme, which means you need to have some type of skill editing HTML files and some type of HTML editor (Notepad on Windows will do, TextEdit on Mac), plus some way to transfer the files (typically via FTP), which you can do with Cyberduck (on Mac) or CuteFTP (on Windows), both of which are free programs.

You can find the particular file you’re looking for in your wp-content/themes/default/ folder. The file is called sidebar.php. That assumes you’re still using the default theme. If not, you’ll need to look in the folder that corresponds with your theme.

Once you have located that file and opened it in your HTML editor, you’ll want to be very careful about what you take out, but if you take some time and study what’s there, and trial and error removing items then checking them against your site, you should get a decent little understanding of how your sidebar works.

Once you figure that out – who knows?! Good luck!