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You can also do this by going to Pages and select “Quick Edit” for a page. There is a tick box for “Allow comments” which you should untick.

Thanks Jesin.

Wait. I published my page and now it works! Thanks Jesin for your help.

Yes. But I forgot to name the custom page template:

/**
Template Name: Full Width
 */

Once I did that, I was able to select the page template for the page I am editing, but the right sidebar still shows. Sigh. Here is the custom page template code:

<?php
/**
Template Name: Full Width
 */
$bavotasan_theme_options = bavotasan_theme_options();
get_header(); ?>

	<div style="width:100%" id="primary" <?php bavotasan_primary_attr(); ?>>

		<?php
		while ( have_posts() ) : the_post();
			?>
			<article id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>
				<h1 class="entry-title"><?php the_title(); ?></h1>

			    <div class="entry-content">
				    <?php the_content( __( 'Read more →', 'tonic' ) ); ?>
			    </div><!-- .entry-content -->

			    <?php get_template_part( 'content', 'footer' ); ?>
			</article><!-- #post-<?php the_ID(); ?> -->
			<?php
			comments_template( '', true );
		endwhile; // end of the loop.
		?>

	</div><!-- #primary.c8 -->

<footer id="footer" role="contentinfo">
	<div id="footer-content" class="grid <?php echo $bavotasan_theme_options['width']; ?>">
		<div class="row">
			<p class="copyright c12">
				<span class="fl"><?php printf( __( 'Copyright ? %s %s. All Rights Reserved.', 'tonic' ), date( 'Y' ), ' <a href="' . home_url() . '">' . get_bloginfo( 'name' ) .'</a>' ); ?></span>
				<span class="credit-link fr"><i class="icon-leaf"></i><?php printf( __( '%s created by %s.', 'tonic' ), BAVOTASAN_THEME_NAME, '<a href="https://themes.bavotasan.com">c.bavota</a>' ); ?></span>
			</p><!-- .c12 -->
		</div><!-- .row -->
	</div><!-- #footer-content.grid -->
</footer><!-- #footer -->

<?php wp_footer(); ?>

<!-- <?php echo BAVOTASAN_THEME_NAME; ?> created by c.bavota - https://themes.bavotasan.com -->
</body>
</html>

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so should i:

create child theme
copy parent theme page.php to child them and rename to page-fullwidth (say)
make changes to page-fullwidth as Jesin suggested?

I did all that but it doesn’t seem to pick up that there is now a custom page template available. I have page.php in parent them and page-fullwidth.php in child theme. I presume I should be doing something differently, but what? place a copy of page.php in child theme?