Title: delete the sidebar
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# delete the sidebar

 *  [joegeb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joegeb/)
 * (@joegeb)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-the-sidebar/)
 * How can one remove the sidebar completely, without it messing up the layout? 
   I want to keep the distance it creates in the body of my page, but when it’s 
   deleted, the page shrinks drastically. I’m digging in CSS…but I’m sure someone
   knows exactly where to go

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 *  [schure](https://wordpress.org/support/users/schure/)
 * (@schure)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-the-sidebar/#post-258771)
 * Could you fill us in on the theme mate?
 *  Thread Starter [joegeb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joegeb/)
 * (@joegeb)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-the-sidebar/#post-258773)
 * oh, sorry. it’s the default kubrick
 *  [oriecat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oriecat/)
 * (@oriecat)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-the-sidebar/#post-258777)
 * Did you delete the css for the sidebar, or just delete the get_sidebar code from
   the template? Are you wanting to post text to go across the whole thing then?
 *  Thread Starter [joegeb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joegeb/)
 * (@joegeb)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-the-sidebar/#post-258778)
 * yes, text across the entire page. i’m new at this…
 *  [oriecat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oriecat/)
 * (@oriecat)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-the-sidebar/#post-258779)
 * I think you should just be able to change wherever the template says narrowcolumn
   to widecolumn?
 *  Thread Starter [joegeb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joegeb/)
 * (@joegeb)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-the-sidebar/#post-258782)
 * changed it in both index.php and page.php – no dice.
 *  [kloge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kloge/)
 * (@kloge)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-the-sidebar/#post-258875)
 * I’ve been working on this too with the Kubrick theme. I don’t have this entirely
   worked out, but here’s a start:
 * 1) You have to create a template that doesn’t include the ‘get_sidebar();’ function
   call. ‘get_sidebar()’ populates the page with file links from your site. Leaving
   out that function from the template will prevernt any of the page links from 
   printing in the sidebar.
 * Copy the text below to get the general code for the new wide column template:
 * < — copy after this line –>
 * <?php
    /* Template Name: No Sidebar */ ?>
 * <?php get_header(); ?>
 *  <div id=”content” class=”widecolumn2″>
 *  <?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
    <div class=”
   post” id=”post-<?php the_ID(); ?>”> <h2><?php the_title(); ?></h2> <div class
   =”widebody2″> <?php the_content(‘<p class=”serif”>Read the rest of this page »’);?
   >
 *  <?php link_pages(‘**Pages:** ‘, ”, ‘number’); ?>
 *  </div>
    </div> <?php endwhile; endif; ?> <?php edit_post_link(‘Edit this entry.’,”,”);?
   > </div>
 * <?php get_footer(); ?>
 * <– stop copying before this line –>
 * 2) Paste the copied text into a new text file and name it something like ‘no-
   sidebar.php’ This file needs to be uploaded to your ‘themes’ directory inside
   the folder that contains the theme you’re using (Kubrick). The name of the template
   that shows up in the admin panel of WordPress comes from the ‘comment’ lines 
   at the top of the template file.
 * 3) You also need to either use an existing CSS definition, or create a new one
   to coerce the layout into a single column. Add the following to your main CSS
   file.
 * .widecolumn2 {
    float: left; padding: 0 0 20px 45px; width: 450px; }
 * I based this on the ‘widecolumn’ definition. You may have to play with the numbers
   to get it to align the exact way you like.
 * 4) Go to the admin panel and choose MANAGE -> PAGES, then EDIT the page you want
   the new theme to be part of. You’ll see a field that says ‘Page Template’. Choose‘
   no-sidebar’ (the one you just created) from the popup list. That forces WordPress
   to use that template for that particular page.
 * When you reload the page now you should see that the sidebar shows no text and
   there’s a main wide column.
 * Incidentally, if anyone knows how to get rid of the fill color for the Kubrick
   sidebar please post. I haven’t found where to change that yet to make it white.
 * – Ken
 *  [kloge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kloge/)
 * (@kloge)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete-the-sidebar/#post-258880)
 * Okay, as far as getting rid of the color in the Kubrick sidebar I just noticed
   that it’s not done with CSS, but rather a JPG. I spent a lot of time going through
   the CSS looking for the gray color tags for the sidebar and there were none.
 * ‘kubrickbgwide.jpg’ is the image with no gray in the sidebar.
 * DOH!

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