Since I couldn’t seem to override the sidebar I simply styled it out using CSS. On the style.css file I set the primary class to width: 100% and the secondary class, which is what gives the sidebar it’s space on the page, I set it to width: 0% and padding-right: 0px.
I’m not sure if it was this that fixed it or just a delay in one of the other fixes I tried, but I don’t really care, as long as it’s fixed I’m a happy camper.
Hopefully, my journey helps someone else down the road as well.
I’m quite new to WordPress as well. The theme came from a guy by the name of Tyler Moore. He has a comprehensive video tutorial on how to use this Tesseract them and to modify it to the design I’m using, which I love. Here’s his site: https://tyler.com/2015/create-a-wordpress-website-2015/
I’m not sure what a “wp-repo theme” is and I don’t know what “custom modded 2015” means either. I’m sorry, again I’m new to WordPress and haven’t figured out the language yet.