How to remove blog features from my theme?

What theme are you using? It’s not difficult to remove but to do it the right way, the theme information would be helpful.

I’m using the theme called Minimatica.

Thanks.

Okay that’s just the sidebar. However, this theme adds some default “widgets” to display in the sidebar in the event you don’t put any widgets there yourself.

Your theme is modified so it’s hard for me to tell exactly what’s going on. But from what it looks like, you’ve placed no widgets in the “Sidebar” titled widget area and the default pages widget is showing.

What you can do is copy the sidebar.php template from Minimatica into the root of your child theme. Then in that file, these three lines are responsible for outputting default widgets:

<?php the_widget( 'WP_Widget_Search' ); ?>
<?php the_widget( 'Minimatica_Ephemera_Widget', array( 'title' => 'Asides' ) ); ?>
<?php the_widget( 'WP_Widget_Pages', array(  ) ); ?>

You are free to remove those lines. However, that doesn’t remove the sidebar altogether. At that point, you’re getting into some pretty heavy layout customizations.

Thank you so much for the reply, that worked for me and completely removed the annoying sidebar!

No problem!