Removing Sidebar Sections in Sanbox via CSS?
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Hey everyone. I’m modifying Sandbox’s CSS through WordPress.com and trying to remove all of the sidebar sections except “Categories.” I know you can’t modify HTML with the WP CSS upgrade, but is there a way to remove/hide sidebar sections using CSS? I was able to get ride of the “Pages” section by simply deleting all of my blog pages, but “Archives,” “Search,” “Blogroll,” “RSS,” and “Meta” are still hanging around. Thanks.
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If you want to get rid of most of those, you don’t need CSS. Just go to the Widgets page of the Design menu, and drag and drop the ones you don’t want.
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@rosclarke, you are thinking of the old way of widgets. Now it’s: click “edit” on each one, then click “remove” and then click “save” changes.
:-)
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It says I have “0” current widgets. I don’t believe “Archives,” “Search,” “Blogroll,” “RSS,” and “Meta” are widgets, but I could be wrong.
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Archives, Blogroll, RSS, Meta and Search are all widgets. I have most of them removed from my blog without any CSS. On the widgets page, look at the right hand column. Anything there that you don’t want, you can remove in the way that thesacredpath says.
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If you have not yet added any widgets to the sidebar (and from what you say it sounds like you have not) the theme will display a sample set (that are not really widgets) so that you can see what it would look like. Click the “add” link on the categories widget to add it and then click “save changes”. Your sidebar should now show only the category widget.
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Archive, meta, blogroll, whatever is on Sidebar 2. So on your ‘Design > Widgets’ page, you must switch ‘Sidebar 1’ to ‘Sidebar 2’ then click ‘Show’, and add/remove anything you want.
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what happens when all your widgets are on sidebar 2 but sidebar 2 is not showing? this is my problem. I know it sounds nuts but its true and no matter what theme i use its the same.
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I’m having exactly the same problem as Michael – I’ve got no widgets selected in Sidebar 1 or Sidebar 2, but my sidebar’s still showing the default set (Pages, Categories, Archives, Search, RSS Feeds, Meta). How can I remove them?
NB this is a new blog & presumably a new problem – I never had this trouble with my previous Sandbox blog.
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I think that’s what Sandbox does when you’re not using any widgets. Once you pick a widget, the Sandbox default widgets will go off. I might be wrong with this though.
If you really don’t want the sidebars to show, you can
div.sidebar {display:none;}it anytime. -
On the contrary, I want sidebars (and widgets), I just want to be able to choose my own widgets.
The problem seems to be with the two-sidebar system. If you don’t select any widgets for Sidebar 1, you automatically get Pages, Categories and Archives. If you don’t select any widgets for Sidebar 2, you automatically get Search, RSS Feeds and Meta.
The problem with this is that the widgets don’t show up as having been selected, and the sidebars still show up as empty. The default sidebars go away as soon as you select at least one widget for each sidebar. But if you decide you only want to use Sidebar 1 and leave Sidebar 2 empty, what you’ll get is whatever you select for Sidebar 1 *plus* Search, RSS Feeds and Meta – even if you what you select for Sidebar 1 is Search, RSS Feeds and Meta.
I’ve worked it out now, but I think it’s a bit of a hack. If default widgets are going to be pre-selected, they should show up as having been selected, so that users who don’t want them can de-select them.
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