How to Lock or Unlock Widgets in Blogger ~ Cool Blogger Tricks

If you ever used blogger template consisting of some widgets irremovable. In some templates some of the widgets are not removable and blog author remove responsive blogger template due to some locked widgets. So here I'll tell you how to remove locked widgets from blogger template or add locked widget in your own blogger template. Many of the blogger template developers prefer to add unlocked widgets so can other can easily customize edit or remove widgets from the template. But some developers add some locked widgets from blogger template.

How to Unlock Widgets in Blogger :

The first thing is go to blogger.com and login to your Google account. After login to your account, go to template section and click on Edit HTML. I suggest you that Use this method on your testing blog before testing it your own personal blog. This is safe test before applying.

When you are editing template top of the page you see "Jump to widget", when you click on it a drop down menu will be open and select your widget which you want to lock or unlock.

When you select your desire widget you'll get the code of that widget that is this ( it may be different if you select any other widget).

<b:widget id='Header1' locked='true' title='My Blogger Lab (Header)' type='Header'>
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</b:widget>

to unlock widget you just change locked='true' to locked='false' and from layout section you can easily remove or edit widget. Tip you can easily remove widget from template if you remove <b:widget> to </b:widget> code from template.

How to Lock Widgets in Blogger:

In above section you learn how to unlock widget in blogger template. In this section you'll learn how to lock widget in blogger template. go to blogger and select blog then template and Edit HTML. go to your specific widget and change locked='false' to locked='true'. When you change from false to true save your template.