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Removing Blurb-Sidebar on Wordpress Website


My wordpress website constantly keeps showing this funny thing:

"Use your widget sidebars in the admin Design tab to change this little blurb here. Add the text widget to the Blurb Sidebar!"

How do I remove/hide this area?

I went to website/wp-admin/widgets.php but I am not sure how do I hide the "blurb" area. Any help would be appreciated.


Solution

  • You're probably aware that WordPress uses themes to provide for different use cases and (a)esthetics. The sidebar in question is undoubtedly a feature of the theme you have chosen to use. Each theme has a series of templates to provide for certain functionality. The themes live in...

    /wp-content/themes/[your_theme]/
    

    There will be a PHP file for each page type. What you want to do can be done in two different ways.

    1. Edit the PHP file, and remove the DIV that renders the sidebar you wish to remove.

    2. Edit the CSS file and set the DIV in question to display:none.

    Both methods may have the knock-on effect of simply removing the offending area without adjusting the rest of the page content. You will likely need to set any adjacent DIVs to width:100% or similar.