No, is not possible, not in 99% of cases. Widget areas are added with a register_sidebar call in a php file. Until WordPress read that line, the widget area is registered. So, the the easiest and always available way to prevent a widget area is registered is remove (or at least comment out) that line. … Read more
Thanks Stephen for helping me wrap my head around this today. Even though it’s something so small, I absolutely hate when develpers bloat plugins with crap you don’t want. I was very frustrated after WPengine, telling me it can’t be removed and that if I really want to remove it than I need to find … Read more
You’re using an extremely outdated method of creating a widget. You should be using the __construct() function, not a named function, as the constructor, as documented. namespace App; class My_Widget extends \WP_Widget { function __construct() { $widget_ops = [ ‘name’ => ‘My widget’, ‘description’ => ‘My description’ ]; parent::__construct( ‘My_Widget’, ‘My widget’, $widget_ops ); } … Read more
More easy & elegant (higher maintainability): <?php // Your sidebar should have the wp_meta action hook wp_meta(); // in ex. your functions.php function my_sidebar_content() { // “About” Page if ( is_page(‘about’) ) { // If some widget is added via Admin > Design > Widgets if ( is_active_sidebar( ‘widgets-sidebar-default’ ) ) { // Display Widgets … Read more
I suppose you are doing something like this: <?php if ( ! dynamic_sidebar( ‘widget-area’ ) ) : ?> Your sidebar code goes here. <?php endif; ?> If yes, do this instead: Your sidebar code goes here. <?php dynamic_sidebar( ‘widget-area’ ); ?>
You can use the function unregister_widget to remove widgets. E.g. you can remove the Calendar widget with: function my_widgets_init() { unregister_widget( ‘WP_Widget_Calendar’ ); } add_action(‘widgets_init’, ‘my_widgets_init’); To add widgets, use the Widgets API.
Your theme may be written badly and replace the correct jQuery. Switch to TwentyEleven to check for this. If this doesn’t help, turn off all plugins and re-enable them step by step.
Add a class .hide with property display: none; – specify only for mobile viewports, not in desktop styles assign the class to your widget or to the entire sidebar, as needed
you can create function for theme customizer with all the settings you need: to remove “widgets” we will need to remove the “widgets” panel. put this code in function.php function your_customizer( $wp_customize ) { $wp_customize->remove_panel( ‘widgets’ ); } add_action( ‘customize_register’, ‘your_customizer’ ); or if you have your own function just add: $wp_customize->remove_panel( ‘widgets’ );
You need to listen for the click event (there is no such thing as a pre/before click) and do some work right then or figure out if you want to allow the click to “go through” or not based on some validation for example. jQuery(function($) { // We are binding to the body so that … Read more