Title: Genesis Simple Sidebars  Illegal string
Last modified: August 21, 2016

---

# Genesis Simple Sidebars Illegal string

 *  [timlh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timlh/)
 * (@timlh)
 * [11 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/genesis-simple-sidebars-illegal-string/)
 * The topic was closed but Ron Rennick is wrong. You don’t have to quote “Go into
   your database and delete the ss-settings option (wp_options table). You will 
   have to re-create your sidebars.”
 * What you do is search wp-options for the “option_name” ss-settings and then click
   edit.
 * The first line will look something like this –>
    a:10:{s:17:”sidebar-districts”;
   a:2:{s:4:”name”;s:19:”Southwest but you should see i=0 change the 0 to a 1 and
   save. Copy the entire block and save it to a text editor first so you can go 
   back if you mess up. If the database doesn’t like your edit the entire block 
   will be gone and you have to re-paste the original code back in and try again.
   Once that is done you can go to Genesis>Simple Sidebars in the dashboard and 
   delete the null sidebar.

The topic ‘Genesis Simple Sidebars Illegal string’ is closed to new replies.

 * 0 replies
 * 1 participant
 * Last reply from: [timlh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timlh/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/genesis-simple-sidebars-illegal-string/)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics