Title: Recent Posts Widget Help
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Recent Posts Widget Help

 *  Resolved [cbohley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cbohley/)
 * (@cbohley)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-widget-help/)
 * Hi,
 * I stupidly dragged a recent posts widget to my sidebar this afternoon and now
   it’s stuck on the home page of my blog. I deleted it, removed it, re-added it,
   and so on with no different results.
 * This is the link to my blog: [http://abloggingbride.com](http://abloggingbride.com)
 * I’d appreciate any help you can give! I’m just so frustrated at this point 🙁
 * Thanks so much!

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-widget-help/#post-2146647)
 * Start by deleting it.
 *  Thread Starter [cbohley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cbohley/)
 * (@cbohley)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-widget-help/#post-2146778)
 * I tried deleting it, but it never fully goes away. It stays within my inactive
   widgets box, but I can’t figure out how to get rid of it completely.
 * I have other widgets in my inactive box that aren’t an issue, so I figured this
   one shouldn’t be either. It’s just not deactivated. I read that some people had
   to remove something from their code, but I’m not even close to understanding 
   how to do that.
 *  Thread Starter [cbohley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cbohley/)
 * (@cbohley)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-widget-help/#post-2146835)
 * There’s only 2 options: delete or drag over to inactive widgets, both of which
   I’ve tried. There’s no uninstall or anything and when I checked this morning,
   it was still there. I was hoping that maybe it would take 24 hours or something,
   but no luck.
 *  Thread Starter [cbohley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cbohley/)
 * (@cbohley)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-widget-help/#post-2146843)
 * I just downloaded a plugin called “widgets reset” and it reset all of my widgets
   except for the one in question. It’s been removed from the widgets column, but
   the recent post still appears in the sidebar of my blog. I can’t believe it won’t
   just go away.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-widget-help/#post-2146882)
 * Are you sure that you are not just seeing the default sidebar content? Have you
   tried adding an empty Text widget to your sidebar?

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 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/recent-posts-widget-help/#post-2146882)
 * Status: resolved

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