Thanks for liking my theme, steeephen :).
gemboy actually had his problem with the OLD version (versions 1.4 and below) of my theme. He was asking to delete the essentials bar which is actually the sidebar. I just like to add the heading “Essentials” to my sidebars because it contains essential data.
Now if he was talking about the actually Essentials heading then all he had to do was delete the <h2>Essentials</h2> code in sidebar1.php and any default content he didn’t want and keep the sidebar active as you already stated said, steephen.
The HTML/PHP hierarchy wasn’t well organized in the old versions but in 1.5 I redesigned, recoded, and reorganized everything so this topic is actually outdated to the max.