Title: Empty widget area shown
Last modified: March 2, 2017

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# Empty widget area shown

 *  [Kurisutian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kurisutian/)
 * (@kurisutian)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-widget-area-shown/)
 * Hi,
    I’m using this plugin to show certain widgets only on the frontpage. I don’t
   want them to show up anywhere else. No posts, no pages. So far, the restriction
   is working well except one thing I noticed:
 * When using the wordpress internal funktion do hide widgets, the widget area I’m
   using is not even displayed. When using the plugin, the area (which has a different
   background defined) shows but it’s empty.
    My intention is not only hiding the
   widget (which works nice) but also not showing the widget area (which works with
   WP itself, but WP won’t include custom post types). Is this actually possible?

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 *  Plugin Author [dFactory](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dfactory/)
 * (@dfactory)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/empty-widget-area-shown/#post-8867434)
 * Please enable is_sidebar_active() plugin option.
    It should do the trick.

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