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unregister_sidebar() works but it is weird and finicky.

WP’s internal documentation says that unregister_sidebar() takes the ID of the sidebar as an argument, which I suppose is technically true, but it’s misleading. Sidebar IDs are automatically generated. They look like sidebar-1, sidebar-2, etc, and are different from the names you give a sidebar when you register it.

Here’s a little function you can use to see what your sidebars look like (don’t use this on a live site!):

`function what_are_my_sidebars_called() {

global $wp_registered_sidebars;

print “

"; print_r($wp_registered_sidebars); print "

“; die();

}

add_action( ‘wp_head’, ‘what_are_my_sidebars_called’, 1 );

I unregistered the sidebars. As mentioned above, they go by ID… not name. Also, if you want to register NEW sidebars… they come first in line. So let’s say you register a new sidebar in your child’s function.php file named “my-sidebar” and want to unregister the other three that the parent theme uses. You have 4 sidebars now to deal with. Your’s (id = sidebar-1) and the other three from the parent. You would do something like this:

register_sidebars( 1,

array(

'name' => 'my-sidebar'

)

);



function remove_sidebar() {

unregister_sidebar('sidebar-2');

unregister_sidebar('sidebar-3');

unregister_sidebar('sidebar-4');

}

add_action( 'admin_init', 'remove_sidebar');