[Plugin: Widget Logic] Widget-logic doesn’t “deactivate” widgets on sidebars without widgets

ok – i’m not going to count that as a bug. If i understand it’s a shortcoming of the general idea which is just as Justin describes.

to adapt your post title “Widget-logic doesn’t “deactivate” SIDEBARS on sidebars without widgets”

assuming that your CSS correctly responds to the absence of a sidebar – you still have to work out how to get the sidebar HTML to vanish entirely, which Widget Logic can’t do – as it depends on your theme. so if (for example) your category.php or index.php or whatever does a normal get_sidebar(); your sidebar.php might look typically something like

<ul id="sidebar"><?
if (function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')) dynamic_sidebar();
?></ul>

and widget logic only steps in at the dynamic_sidebar(); step. By which time you are already committed to the UL block, or something like that.

what you have to do is work out how to not get that called in the first place.

right now I can’t think of a sensible way for WL to step in and do that for you. Sorry.

You could change the call to get_sidebar(); so that it’s something like

if (is_category() && !is_category(Y))
	get_sidebar();