Title: Cannot edit Sidebar
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Cannot edit Sidebar

 *  [uri1090](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uri1090/)
 * (@uri1090)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-sidebar/)
 * My blog — [http://mathventures.org/](http://mathventures.org/) — (which is a 
   1&1 blog, namely, it is hosted and the blog software is provided by 1&1 web site
   hosting service) has a sidebar on the left with links to other pages, a calendar,
   external links, category list. etc. I created and edited this sidebar. it’s been
   a while since I needed to update it. Now I discovered that I cannot edit it.
 * So I searched the various settings of **Site Admin** to check if anything has
   changed. Under **Presentations / Widgets** I found the following message:
 *  “are seeing this message because the theme you are currently using isn’t widget-
   aware, meaning that it has no sidebars that you are able to change. For information
   on making your theme widget-aware, please follow these instructions.”
 * But I do have and can see the sidebar.
 * I am using the Terra theme that is provided by the WordPress software.
 * From the instructions the text refers — [http://automattic.com/code/widgets/themes/](http://automattic.com/code/widgets/themes/)—
   it seems that the HTML code has to be edited.
 * The problem is that even if I wanted to edit the HTML code of the sidebar, I 
   have no way of accessing it.
 * So what is the problem and how do I fix it?
 * Note that since the software for this blog is provided automatically by 1&1, 
   I have no way of upgrading it to the latest version.
 * Thank you,
 * Uri

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 *  [shadow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shadow/)
 * (@shadow)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-sidebar/#post-644248)
 * Are you saying you do not have access to your ftp? And you do not have access
   to your presentation panel?
 *  Thread Starter [uri1090](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uri1090/)
 * (@uri1090)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-sidebar/#post-644296)
 * With respect to the “presentation panel”, if you refer to the Presentation page
   in the site Admin, which has the sub-pages (1) Themes, (2) Widgets and (3) Header
   Image and Color, then I have access to it. I think that is where I was able in
   the past to edit the sidebar and now I can’t. If “presentation panel” refer to
   something else, then I don’t know what you mean.
 * As far as FTP, as far as I know the answer is **no** — 1&1, the hosting service
   does not expose to me and does not give me access to the directory where it stores
   the blog files.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-edit-sidebar/#post-644298)
 * If you used their blog thingy… you are doomed.
    That’s their own screwed-up “
   version” of WP, and you will never have access to your database either; e.g. 
   for a backup or moving.
 * I am sorry to bring the bad news but nobody should ever use that “blog” that 
   they offer.

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