How to Lock/Unlock Widgets in Blogger Blog

Today I will show show how to lock or unlock any widget in blogger. Time to time we want to work advanced and desires to remove or edit that widget that are doesnot provide any option to either remove or edit. Few days ago, one of our users asked us that How to Lock or Unlock Widgets in Blogger Blog?

How to Un-Lock Widgets in Blogger

First of all you need to do is to login into your Blogger account by visiting to blogger.com. After logging in, select a blog and go to Template >> Edit HTML (We advise you to Test on any blog first.). 

Then at the top of your screen you will see a “Jump to Widget” button right next to the orange Save Template button. It is a drop down menu containing of all the widgets which are being used in template. Select any of widget that you like entirely depends on yourself.

After selecting it takes you to widget code something like this.(It also look different because the name of your widget may be different from the below ones):

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

If you want to unlock the widget, just replace locked='true' with locked='false', this will command the template to unlock the gadget from the Layout Area. (Best Tip: A user can also remove the widget by removing all the code from <b:widget> to </b:widget> tags).

How to Lock Any Widget in Blogger:

As you already know the way to unlock gadgets in blogger, this part would not cause a lot of problems. Go to Blogger >> Template >> Edit HTML and search for locked='false'. On finding it replace the False with True to lock the widget. When everything is done save your template to finish the process great fully.

 

We hope this Tutorial will help you alot. if you have any query about this feel free to ask in comments or email us.