How To Remove Sidebar Completely

  • I’m using Radiate theme for my website and I would like to remove the sidebar totally so that my site won’t look like a blog. I clicked on Appearance-Customize-Widgets and removed all the widgets but the sidebar continues to show Search, Archives and Meta.
    Could someone help me please? This is my first time to use wordpress.

    Also is there a way for my Home page not to be a blog post complete with those Date, Uncategorized, Leave a Comment, Edit icons? I tried deleting the post but it still appears as one with a “Nothing Here” note on my Home page.

    Thanks.

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  • Hi hannijin,

    To remove the sidebar from your layout, when editing a page, look on the right side of the page, under the “Publish” area. There should be a Template to choose from. What options does it give you?

    As for the Home page, to set it as a static page, go to Settings –> Reading and change your home page to a static page.

    Thread Starter hannijin

    (@hannijin)

    Hi gmgrim,

    The Publish area only contains Status, Visibility, Revisions and Published On. There are two other windows below it which contain Page Attributes and Featured Image

    On my Settings-Reading page, there is no Front Page Display option. It begins with Blog Pages Show At Most.

    Thread Starter hannijin

    (@hannijin)

    My pages were on Private status so the Front Page Display didn’t appear. Once I made status Public, it popped out. But my problem is my Home page is still blog post with all those elements still there.

    Thread Starter hannijin

    (@hannijin)

    I was able to finally fix removing blog as my Home Page. Added a page which I entitled Home and made that the front display page.

    Now I just need to remove the entire side bar but my Template is missing. Would appreciate help in removing this. Thanks.

    hannijin,

    Go to Appearance –> Customize –> Custom CSS

    #primary {
    width: 100%;
}
#secondary {
    display: none;
}
    Thread Starter hannijin

    (@hannijin)

    Thanks gmgrim. Should I do this after I’ve created a child theme?

    If you have a customizer where you can just enter custom CSS, you don’t need to.

    Hi there

    I had the same question and gmgrim’s code fixes the sidebar issue. I’d like to add the Blog Archive Widget back in – just on the Blog page. Is there another piece of code or tool that I can use to do that?

    Thanks

    Michelle

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