Remove default widgets from WP?

[DezUk]

I have a basic wordpress theme setup but I want to remove the default widgets i.e. Search, Archices, Categories and Links. See here:

http://agri-arb.co.uk/

I have removed themn in the backend via the Widgets section but they still show. Doing a bit of searching I found this section of code and tried adding it to the functions.php but didn't work.

// unregister all default WP Widgets
function unregister_default_wp_widgets() {
    unregister_widget('WP_Widget_Pages');
    unregister_widget('WP_Widget_Calendar');
    unregister_widget('WP_Widget_Archives');
    unregister_widget('WP_Widget_Links');
    unregister_widget('WP_Widget_Meta');
    unregister_widget('WP_Widget_Search');
    unregister_widget('WP_Widget_Text');
    unregister_widget('WP_Widget_Categories');
    unregister_widget('WP_Widget_Recent_Posts');
    unregister_widget('WP_Widget_Recent_Comments');
    unregister_widget('WP_Widget_RSS');
    unregister_widget('WP_Widget_Tag_Cloud');
}
add_action('widgets_init', 'unregister_default_wp_widgets', 1);

Version is 3.1.8

Cheers

 

[hargi]

When you have logged into wordpress have you gone in to appearance then widgets?
Then dragged them off the sidebars?
Also in the pages can you set the page template to fullwidth?