How do I unregister a sidebar?
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I’m creating a child theme based on the default child theme. I’ve decided to use a simple 2 column layout on the homepage. I found out how to change the layout easily enough simply by linking to a different layout css file. Very nice. However, since I won’t be using the ‘third-section’ sidebar I would like to also remove it from the admin area so as to not confuse admin users. I tried adding a functions.php file to my child theme with this code but it does not work. Help
<?php
function remove_sidebar() {
unregister_sidebar('third-section');
}
add_action( 'admin_init', 'remove_sidebar');
?>It would be nice to rename the existing ones as well. I want to show non-members (not logged in) the blog sidebar on the homepage… and then swap that out with a members sidebar when people log in. The logic for that in the home.php template is dead simple… but it would be more intuitive if I could rename ‘second-section’ to ‘members-sidebar’. I could just change the parent theme of course… but that just wouldn’t be right.
p.s. WPMU 2.8.4a + BP1.1 and no plugins.
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In your bp-sn-parent theme folder look in functions.php and delete the code in there. Then, in home.php delete the appropriate code. You can re-name them in functions.php as well. Here is one I’ve added as an example (it’s also the code you need to delete from functions.php):
register_sidebars( 1,array(
'name' => 'groups-page',
'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
'after_widget' => '</div>',
'before_title' => '<h2 class="widgettitleevents">',
'after_title' => '</h2>'
)
);
This is the code you need to remove from home.php:
<div id="third-section" class="widget-section"><?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
|| !dynamic_sidebar('third-section') ) : ?>
<div class="widget-error">
<?php _e( 'Please log in and add widgets to this section.', 'buddypress' ) ?> /wp-admin/widgets.php?s=&show=&sidebar=first-section"><?php _e( 'Add Widgets', 'buddypress' ) ?>
</div>
<?php endif; ?>
This should answer your question.
Exactly Andy. That’s my issue. Hacking the parent function.php file is easy. But I don’t want to do that. So I created a function.php file in my child theme but the unregister_sidebar() function doesn’t seem to work
I suspect this is a WPMU thing… not a BuddyPress thing. Here is the code I added to function.php in my child theme. Should work. Doesn’t. I’m at bit of a loss. I tried adding different priority levels to add_action() and they had no effect.<?php
function remove_sidebar() {
unregister_sidebar('third-section');
}
add_action( 'admin_init', 'remove_sidebar');
?>p.s. https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/unregister_sidebar
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