How do I get rid of the right sidebar on the Oxygen theme?

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  andreaepeterson · Member · Mar 28, 2013 at 1:52 am

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  I want to have a wide layout, and I’m trying to do so by ditching my right sidebar. The theme’s preview photo shows this is possible. However, no matter how many widgets I delete or move around, it keeps showing back up. I have even purchased custom CSS for this, and though I have a pretty good working understanding of CSS, I can’t make heads or tails of the original stylesheet, and I’m not even sure that’s the way to go about this. Am I totally missing an option in my theme settings?

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  kathrynwp · Staff · Mar 28, 2013 at 2:42 pm

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  Hi there – it sounds like you’re referring to Oxygen’s “showcase page template” – which removes the sidebar, as seen in this screenshot. Is that right? If so, here’s how to set it up:

  When you first activate Oxygen, you’ll see your posts in a traditional blog format but if you’d like to showcase your content in an online magazine-like fashion, then you can use the Showcase Page template.

  The Showcase Page template offers a featured slider for up to six Sticky Posts. To use the template, create or edit a page, and assign it to the Showcase Page template from the Page Attributes module. If you’d like use the Showcase Page template on your front page, go to Settings → Reading and set the Front page option to Static Page. Select the page you just assigned the Showcase Page template to as your front page and then choose another page to serve as your blog page.

  More information on how to use Oxygen.

  Let me know if this helps!