Hi Ryan

it wasn't the archives i needed to get rid of,  archives disapeared autoatically when i added the text widget.  It was the categories that i didn't know how to delete.

But what i did was find the bit in the code that looked almost the same as what you wrote but with 'categories' instead of 'archives' and that seems to have done the trick.

Would it be possible to include in the next flexibility 2 theme update (flexibility 3?) some buttons to add or delete these sort of things from the 'flexibility theme options' section of WP admin?   Or is that something that needs to be in the WP widgets section?   It shure would make life much easier for us newbies than messing around with code……  although i have enjoyed learning from the experience!

cheers

Yuri

that would be awesome,  i think an option to keep the sidebar visible or not would be an excellent addition and a great help

thanks Ryan!