Can’t get rid of sidebar widgets

  • I’m just setting up my site, and am using a child theme for Kale. I got rid of the header widgets above the site title fine, but I have two problems:

    1. There are widgets in the sidebar that I cannot find in the Customize section of the theme (including an About Me paragraph that I wrote). There are no widgets listed in Customize other than the two I put at the top, showing in a bordered widget.

    2. In the Kale demo, it shows a bordered widget with a photo in at, as well as a “Follow Me” section with social icons. I can’t find or see how to duplicate that section. Is it entered as a “Text” widget with icons and links added into the code?

    Thanks!

    • This topic was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by jhiatt4.
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  • Thread Starter jhiatt4

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    Thread Starter jhiatt4

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    I’m sorry…it doesn’t like my image url. ?? – Nevermind, I got it!

    • This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by jhiatt4.
    Thread Starter jhiatt4

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    Okay – Suddenly the widgets showed up Sidebar-Default, and I was able to get rid of them.

    I’m assuming that in problem #2, the image was inserted via coding in the Text widget, as were the social icons. So…I’ll see if I can get that to work.

    I am having the same issues and tried to find where I can select the full layout and make the sidebar disappear.
    I look forward to figuring this out together.
    Thx!

    Hi there,

    To create bordered section with Follow me widget please go to Customize → Widgets → Sidebar – Default – Bordered and add Text Widget with About me text.
    Then if you want to show a list of your social media icons, start at Appearance → Menus. Create a new menu called “Social”. Please note, the name “Social” is important. It has to be exactly the same spelling, nothing more or less. Now enter each of your social media URLs as a “Custom Link”. You can enter whatever you like for the Link Text. It will be automatically replaced by the relevant social media icon.
    Once you’ve created this menu, you can assign it to any widget area in order to show the social media icons in that location. Go to Appearance → Widgets, and assign the “Custom Menu” widget to Sidebar – Default – Bordered for example, and select the “Social” menu for the Custom Menu.

    @gobabynetwork
    Unfortunately there is currently no option to turn off the sidebar on the home page. It can only be turned off on the internal pages. To do that go to Customize → Pages and select full width layout from Layout option.

    Hope that helps. Feel free to reach out if you need anything.

    Best regards,
    Jarek
    Kale Support

    Thread Starter jhiatt4

    (@jhiatt4)

    @jarektheme
    Thank you for your response! I managed to get the social icons there just through html coding, but I like your idea of setting it up as their own menu. I’ll go ahead and do that for greater flexibility later.

    My new problem is that sidebar fields are showing up in the bordered area when they’re not supposed to be. Weird things like this keep happening.

    In the Sidebar-Default-Bordered, there is only About Me and Follow Me listed, yet Search and Recent Posts are also showing up there. Those are actually listed under Sidebar-Default. Can I fix this? I thought perhaps it would correct itself overnight, but it’s all still there…bordered. ??

    Theme Author lyrathemes

    (@lyrathemes)

    @jhiatt4 Quickly jumping in for Jarek here. Can you please show us a screenshot of your widgets screen so we can figure out what may be going on here?

    Thread Starter jhiatt4

    (@jhiatt4)

    Hi @lyrathemes!

    Yes – so sorry I didn’t do this with my post.

    Screenshot Sidebar

    the Search and Recent Posts are not supposed to be in the bordered element.

    Thank you for your help!

    Theme Author lyrathemes

    (@lyrathemes)

    @jhiatt4 Thanks for getting back to me. Can you please make sure you’re using the latest version of the theme? If so, can you show us the URL? You can send me your website link directly at support at lyrathemes.com if you do not wish to share it here ?? I’d be happy to take a look at why the sidebar widgets are not showing up in the right place.

    Hello! I am having a similar issue to @jhiatt4 in that I have extra widgets showing up in a sidebar that I don’t want. (Please see https://www.granolagirlessays.com). They appear on both the home page and the post pages.

    I want widgets in the bordered side bar only (and I’m very happy with the ones that I’ve got in there – really loving this theme!). I have deleted the widgets from the Sidebar – Default, but they still appear on the website. There are Search, Pages, Recent Posts, Archives, and Categories widgets appearing that should not be there.

    Is there any way to resolve this?

    Hi @jhiatt4, @ricotheque from LyraThemes here.

    When the Sidebar – Default space is empty, the theme loads certain widgets to make sure the space doesn’t stay empty—the Search, Pages, Recent Posts… you get the idea. ??

    IF you’d like to keep your Sidebar blank, please add this to Appearance > Customize > Additional CSS in your Dashboard:

    .sidebar-no-borders {
	display: none;
}

    Hope this helps!

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