Removing redundant widget areas

Hi there,

Thanks for reaching out.

I understand that you would like to remove the widget areas that are coming from the Storefront theme.

You can add the following code in your child theme functions.php file to remove the default widget areas:

add_action( 'widgets_init', 'storefront_unregister_a_widget_area', 999 );
function storefront_unregister_a_widget_area() {

    unregister_sidebar( 'sidebar-1' ); // Remove sidebar widget area
	unregister_sidebar( 'header-1' ); // Remove header widget area
	// Remove footer widget areas
	unregister_sidebar( 'footer-1' );
	unregister_sidebar( 'footer-2' );
	unregister_sidebar( 'footer-3' );
	unregister_sidebar( 'footer-4' );
}

I hope it helps!

Best,

Hi there @agauberti,

Hope you managed to remove the extra widget areas! We haven’t heard back from you for a while, so I’m going to mark this post as resolved.

If you need any further help here, please let us know. Or, if you need additional help with the Storefront theme, please start a new thread and we’ll be able to help you out there.

Thank you!