Inactive Sidebar (not used) – how to remove?

  • Resolved nicknormal

    (@nicknormal)


    8 years, 11 months ago

    Greetings.

    I have an ‘Inactive Sidebar (not used)’ in my Appearance->Widgets directory.

    How do you actually remove this? Others are having the same issue; this thread was never resolved, and this thread is the same issue I am having but the helper doesn’t understand the difference between Widgets and Sidebars.

    To be clear, here’s a picture of what we are talking about:
    https://i.imgur.com/k8tUm4L.png

    The ‘Inactive Sidebar (not used)’ just sits there, there is no menu to delete it. You cannot drag an active or inactive Widget into it, in order to delete it. How do you remove this from this area?

    One Inactive Sidebar might seem trivial, but I have another client with around 200 of these due to a database migration – thus I need to solve *how* to do this.

    Thank you.

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  • Topher

    (@topher1kenobe)

    Hi Nick, as far as I can tell inactive sidebars are sidebars that previously existed, and had widgets in them, but then something got rid of them in the code (change a theme maybe?) but the database options table still has info about them.

    My recommendation is to make a backup copy of the site and use a database tool like phpMyAdmin to look in the options table for those sidebars. Try deleting them from the options table in your backup and see if you can safely remove them that way.

    Thread Starter nicknormal

    (@nicknormal)

    Thank you for that Topher.

    As I used Custom Sidebars to generate the sidebar originally, it appears it was located under wp_options as widget_customsidebarempty or something similar to this; the string data in the table too is quite interesting – I always enjoy sifting around inside phpMyAdmin!

    Cheers.

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