remove the Archive, Meta & search bar section

Hi again,

As mentioned in other topics, it’s super super hard to troubleshoot something without being able to see it. I appreciate you do not want to show off your site until it’s ready to launch, but in particular CSS is something we can’t guess at – it’s heavily influenced by your theme. Any code that we would provide here would just be a wild guess and not super helpful.

My recommendation would be to get in touch with a developer to help you out with these changes. That may sound expensive but it really doesn’t have to be, in particular if you hire through a platform such as Codeable.

If you’d like us to take a look, please lift the ‘coming soon’ page.

Hi Chris – I’ve taken a look, thanks for disabling the coming soon page for a bit.

The archive and meta sections are widgets that are set in the sidebar. I believe what you want to achieve is to remove the sidebar entirely, making the page full width – is that correct?

If that’s the case, I’d recommend against doing this purely via CSS hacks. It can be done, but a better approach is to set up a child theme and to remove the sidebar through there. You’ll want to ask the developer of your theme for guidance on the parts you need to edit, as they’ll have the best overview of this.

If you do want to go the CSS hack route, here’s a starting point:

div#secondary {display: none;}
media (min-width: 992px) .col-md-9 { width: 100%;}

In that case, you’ll want to go to WP Admin > Appearance > Widgets and remove the archives and meta widgets.

Hey Mary – sorry for missing that bit! It’s likely hard coded into your theme in that case, makes it worth asking your theme developer where it’s located so it can be removed!