Hi,

I wanted to remove the 'Recent Posts' and 'Meta' sections on the rhs of my page, so I went into the Admin -> Appearance -> Editor and edited the file Footer.php to comment out the lines of code that were showing the 'Recent Posts' and 'Meta'.

Now I'm just wondering what will happen if / when I upgrade my theme when a new one comes out... I presume my changes will disappear? How do I prevent this?

Many thanks,
WP.

you are absolutely correct, when you upgrade you will lose your changes.

however there is an easier way. Those are the default widgets that appear when you have not added a widget. Once you add your own widget, you are telling WordPress to 'back off, I'm in control' and only the widgets you specify will show up.

or you could use the Atahualpa option to just not display the right sidebar (ato->Style & configure SIDEBARS)

There are very few reasons you have to edit the theme code and that's mostly if there is a fix that has been published.

Many thanks for that, JD.

I've just done that using widgets, and not only does it prevent me needing to do coding, but it looks better too!

WP.