sidebar issue

Hello,

Even though you could override them in the Child Theme it seems that you may have to ‘reset’ the changes you made.

That said, the fix may also be dependant on the kind of changes that you made.

Which theme are you using?

What are the changes (to any theme files) you made before your started to use aChild Theme?

Kase

Unfortunately, i cant remember if i made any changes directly in the stylesheet. The majority of the bits i have done were done with plugins rather than editing in css.

The theme is cazuela.

Regards

Jamie

Hi Jamie,

WP is a lot of trial and error.

A bit of a headache sometimes. But still I think it is a great way to learn ??

Will it be a big hassle for you to reinstall the plugins etc that you modified?

At this moment, unless you can find a way to back track each one…. I think a clean slate is the way to go.

Kase

Would you suggest completely reinstalling wordpress or the theme?

If so would this affect all the data i have created?

Great thing about WordPress is that the ‘Look’ and Data are separate.

So, from what you have explained. You may just need to reinstall the plugins you modified.

I assume that these were just aesthetic changes (css).

At the most, you may have to reinstall the Theme.

There is no obvious need for you to reinstall WordPress.

Your data should be just fine.

Kaze

I think i will try and remove each plugin and if still no joy i will remove and reinstall the theme. I appreciate your advise.

Regards

Jamie

Sounds like a plan ??

Good luck.

Kase

I have removed the vast majority of the plugins and reinstalled the parent and child theme.

Now with the default template I have a search box and archives coming up in the left hand sidebar and meta on the right despite neither of these showing under the widget primary or secondary sidebar. How can I remove these and the left sidebar?

Hi Jamie,

That’s a hard one to figure out without seeing the theme in action (dashboard and all).

I am going to look into this tomorrow.

If you are in really urgent need, you could try and contact the Cazuela Theme developers here:

https://thematosoup.com/our-philosophy/

I don’t mean to leave you hanging but I urgently need to log off.

Kase

Hay Jamie,

Urgency over…So, I am back on the Kase ??

I installed the Cazuela Theme.

I then removed all widgets from the Primary Sidebar.

This left a Search box and Archives.

I then looked in sidebar.php and saw that these ‘widgets’ have been coded into the Theme:

<aside id="search" class="widget widget_search">
			<?php get_search_form(); ?>
		</aside>

		<aside id="archives" class="widget">
			<h1 class="widget-title"><?php _e( 'Archives', 'cazuela' ); ?></h1>
			<ul>
				<?php wp_get_archives( array( 'type' => 'monthly' ) ); ?>
			</ul>
</aside>

As a test, I removed this code and the sidebar was clear.

I then re-added some widgets to the Primary Sidebar and they showed up fine.

What I suggest you do is that you create a copy of sidebar.php (place it in your Child Theme and either comment out the code above or delete it.

This will remove the Search and Archives. You could always replace them with other widgets through the widget page (in the admin dashboard).

I hope this helps.

Kase

You need to select your default layout using theme customizer located in Appearance > Theme Customizer

https://demo.thematosoup.com/cazuela/features/theme-customizer/

@kase Thanks so much for your time and support.

@jamie If you choose to have sidebar(s), but don’t assign any widgets yourself, then WordPress by default shows “Search” and “Archives” widget and this has nothing to do with Cazuela, but with how WordPress works. Hope this explanation helps.

@dragan Nikolic

Thank you so much for your expertise and clarification.

@jamie The default widgets will be shown until you assign the ones you want.

@kase I’m no expert, but I’m glad I could help. Cheers.

Thanks gents for your advise. I will give it a try tonight. How do i completely remove the left sidebar and extend the page to the left?

Hi Jamie,

As @dragan was saying; you can change the placement of the sidebars (your theme’s layout) using WordPress’ built in Theme Customizer:

> Appearance > Theme Customizer > Layout

From there you can choose the layout you need.

In this case; Main content with a Right sidebar would mean selecting and validating the box that is two-thirds light grey with a darker one-third column to the right.

I hope that helps

Kase