Disable Sidebar with zero widget

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#1

Hi Team,

Is it possible to disable right sidebar if no widget is placed.

at this point some default textual widget appear as soon as i remove all widgets.

I have n number of pages and i don’t want to shift to fullwidth for them all. Is is possible that we can disable sidebar if no content just like twentytwelve and others follow.

#2

Hi Anantshri,

To remove default textual widget, you will need to edit sidebar.php file in rtPanel.
In sidebar.php, remove code from

to
.

Thanks,

#3

Thanks for the response.

It would be nice if we have an option to make sure sidebar goes off if no widget is added.
I have solved it by following way:
created a child theme

I have modified two files

  1. Sidebar.php removed the texual section and added the inverse if condition to the sidebar.
    after the first if elseif
if ( ($sidebar_id && dynamic_sidebar( $sidebar_id ) ) ){  
    ?>  
      
      
<?php  
}  
?>
  1. style.css needed a change.
@import url("../rtpanel/style.css");  
@media only screen and (min-width: 64.063em)  
{  
	.large-8 {  
		position: relative;  
		width: 100%;  
	}  
}
#4

In CSS you have used width: 100%; for .large-8 class which is not correct, it will break your grid system. Hope you are using rtPanel Child Theme, in /lib/rtp-custom-hooks-applied.php file you will need to un-comment rtp_set_content_grid_class filter. After that, replace large-8 with large-12 in the same line, so the code will be: add_filter( 'rtp_set_content_grid_class', create_function( '', 'return "large-12 columns";' ) ); If you are using custom child theme, then just add add_filter( 'rtp_set_content_grid_class', create_function( '', 'return "large-12 columns";' ) ); in functions.php. Also do not forget to revert your CSS changes.

#5

Thanks for the update.

I hope this could one day be available as a feature not a custom code based hack.

BTW i am using a custom child with just the above mentioned changes at this point.

#6