I’m having the same issue with a theme I’m using (OctoPink 1.0). It’s a 2-column theme, but only has one sidebar.php file. I cleared out this file, leaving only the widget reference.
My sidebar.php only now only contains the following:
‘ <!– Sidebar –>
<div class=”sidebar”>
<?php if ( !function_exists(‘dynamic_sidebar’) || !dynamic_sidebar(1) ) : ?>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
<!– Sidebar –>’
This only cleared out the left sidebar. In the right sidebar, it left “categories” and “blogroll”. I want to take these out, but I can’t find it’s reference in any file in the theme folder. Is there anywhere else I can look? I, too, want blogroll in the left sidebar, but I don’t want a duplicate in the right sidebar.