Extra Meta Box in Sidebar

  • InkandPage

    (@inkandpage)


    10 years, 10 months ago

    I have been using the Admired theme for quite a while. I wanted to change from two sidebars to one, and when I did, this extra meta box (its has bullet points with “Site Admin” “Log out” and “[Un]Subscribe to Posts”) magically appeared at the top of my sidebar.

    *First issue: I already have a meta box on my site that I prefer using; I don’t want this new one.

    *Second issue: I can’t figure out where the new one came from or where it is located (it’s not listed in the widgets/sidebar area), so I can’t delete it.

    Can someone tell me how to delete this extra meta box?

    Thank you. You can see it on my website: http://inkandpage.me

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  • CrouchingBruin

    (@crouchingbruin)

    10 years, 10 months ago

    Well, you still have two sidebars on the right. What’s happened is that the first sidebar doesn’t have any widgets in it, and whenever you have an empty sidebar, WordPress automatically sticks a meta widget in there. So there are a couple of things you can do:

    1. Add a text box to the first sidebar but don’t add any content to it, leave the title blank as well. The empty text widget should make the meta widget disappear.
    2. Use some CSS to hide the first sidebar. You’ve already activated Jetpack’s custom CSS, so go to Appearance → Edit CSS and add this rule at the very end of the CSS Stylesheet Editor (after line 5): 
      #secondary {
   display: none;
}

    The second option is probably a bit “cleaner”.

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