Remove Primary Sidebar from posts.

Hello Sarnava,

That is not as simple as just removing the widgets. If you want to remove the left (Primary) sidebar then there’s some coding involved – a basic knowledge of child theming, PHP and CSS is required.

What is your PHP/CSS code comfort level?

Zulf

none for php and basic for css.

OK, if you’d like to hold on for a few days I’ll work an option in to the theme to remove the left sidebar. The new version for this won’t be available till sometime next week/weekend though.

Regards,
Zulf.

P.S: If you still want to give it a shot and code it yourself in a child theme then give me a shout and I’ll sort the CSS out for you. But do bare in mind that it is a bit involved and there may be some PHP adjustments required.

If I replace the id or classes according to your theme in the following code and create a child theme and paste this in the “sidebar.php”, Will it Work ?

<?php global $theme; ?>
<?php if ( !is_single() ) : ?>
<div id="sidebar-primary">

    <?php
        if(!dynamic_sidebar('sidebar_primary')) {
            /**
            * The primary sidebar widget area. Manage the widgets from: wp-admin -> Appearance -> Widgets
            */
            $theme->hook('sidebar_primary');
        }
        $theme->hook("sidebar_primary_after");
    ?>

</div><!-- #sidebar-primary -->
<?php endif; ?>

<div id="sidebar-secondary">

    <?php
        if(!dynamic_sidebar('sidebar_secondary')) {
            /**
            * The secondary sidebar widget area. Manage the widgets from: wp-admin -> Appearance -> Widgets
            */
            $theme->hook('sidebar_secondary');
        }
    ?>

</div><!-- #sidebar-secondary -->

All that code will do is return an empty primary sidebar – plus you’ll get errors if you are not hooking to the right selector.

No need to complicate matters – just leave sidebar.php as it is and add the following CSS code to your child theme’s style.css
.site:before,#secondary{width:0;display:none;}.ie8 .site:before,.ie8 #secondary{width:0px;display:none;}.featured-content{padding-left:40px;}.site-content,.site-main .widecolumn{margin-left:40px;}.ie8 .site-content,.ie8 .site-main .widecolumn{margin-left:40px;}

@media screen and (min-width: 1008px) {.search-box-wrapper{padding-left:368px;}}@media screen and (min-width: 1080px) {.search-box-wrapper,.featured-content{padding-left:368px;}}

Then add the following code to your child theme’s functions.php

function ridizain_remove_widgets(){
	// Remove Primary sidebar from widget area.
	unregister_sidebar( 'sidebar-1' );
}
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'ridizain_remove_widgets', 11 );

The CSS will remove the sidebar from the site and the function will remove the widget area from the Admin side.

Let me know how it goes.

Zulf

Thank you sir, this worked. I am Very much grateful.
Thank You.

Sarnava

You are most welcome ??