Unremovable widgets in blogger - Solution

Often bloggers encounter problems, where they download templates from a third party site and then try and edit it as per their wishes. But many a times they find a problem, that the widgets from the third party templates cannot be removed, using the conventional techniques.

So what's the solution, simple, HTML trumps CSS.

i.e. usually when you want to change a particular widget, you go to

your Dashboard --> Layout
then click on edit button corresponding to the widget to be changed.

 

You're then redirected to a pop-up which opens up the properties.
Unlike usual widgets, they will not have a remove button.

 

So here's the solution, Go to Dashboard | Template | Click on Customise | and proceed.

Find out the piece of code 'b:widget id='
Recognize your widget name and change the parameter, locked='true' to locked='false'
Now try the above process for any other widget.

  

 Then go to Layout and remove the widget, manually.

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