Global Disable/Enable Sidebar Plugin

  • Hello,

    I’ve searched on the web and could not find a plugin which can toggle enble/disable sidebar appearance on a whole WordPress web site.

    I’ve found some workaround to comment out the line get_sidebar(); or empty out the sidebar.php. But this way I have to edit the theme every time I install and activate a different theme.

    So I’m really looking for a plugin which can control global sidebar settings. If anybody knows something about it, please let me know. Thanks.

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  • Dan Bissonnet

    (@asinglehumanbeing)

    Unfortunately it’s not possible to globally disable all sidebars in all themes without hacking the core files. When get_sidebar() is called, WordPress will always try to load a sidebar template, either from the current theme or wp-includes/theme-compat/sidebar.php if that fails.

    Of course, you can disable any widgets in the usual way if the theme is widgetized, but that may still leave empty mark-up on the page where the widget area is.

    Thread Starter gs_s

    (@gs_s)

    I see. I’ll go with the workarounds then.

    Thanks anyways, for taking time for the response.

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