Spectacu.la Topic: Sidebar won't go away / clear out

Spectacu.la Topic: Sidebar won't go away / clear out http://spectacu.la/forum/ A great WordPress community en Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:13:13 +0000 sfogden on "Sidebar won't go away / clear out" http://spectacu.la/forum/topic/sidebar-wont-go-away-clear-out#post-144 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:18:25 +0000 sfogden 144@http://spectacu.la/forum/ Thank you - I appreciate the quick response & consideration in future versions. It's sure nice to be a newbie & get something useful up without too much brain damage. Sorry for posting in the wrong place originally! Steve clopinettes on "Sidebar won't go away / clear out" http://spectacu.la/forum/topic/sidebar-wont-go-away-clear-out#post-143 Thu, 14 Jan 2010 11:10:30 +0000 clopinettes 143@http://spectacu.la/forum/ Hi Steve, Thanks for the repost there! I see what you're saying now. To get rid of it for the time being, you could try placing an empty text widget in the space. Unfortunately that will still leave a small space due to the padding on that widget. Alternatively, a more technical approach is to go into sidebar.php and remove all of the code between lines and 7 and 31. That will remove the default navigation behaviour. The behaviour is quite typical in WP - if there are no widgets in the main sidebar, default to some basic widgets. However, we can see the problem... a user may wish to implement one or two thin sidebars only and they won't want the default navigation any more. Caribou 1.0.7 is already out on our site, but to get it into the Wordpress.org repository we need to make some changes to the back-end Ajax. So, we'll line up the change for Caribou 1.0.8 and that should be released within a couple of weeks, though it could take longer before the repository sees it. I hope that helps, David. sfogden on "Sidebar won't go away / clear out" http://spectacu.la/forum/topic/sidebar-wont-go-away-clear-out#post-142 Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:48:19 +0000 sfogden 142@http://spectacu.la/forum/ I've removed widgets from 300px sidebar & added widgets to the 160px sidebar. The 300px sidebar didn't go away. In the Widgets area, the 300px doesn't have anything placed on it, but it is displaying several items (categories, pages, & meta). The 160px sidebar is below it & is displaying what it's supposed to. Can't seem to get rid of the 300px one, even with it's widgets removed. Link to site: <a href="http://steveogden.net/wordpress/" rel="nofollow">http://steveogden.net/wordpress/</a> Caribou 1.0.6 Wordpress: 2.9.1 Plug Ins: none activated, Akismet & Hello Dolly installed.