Title: Empty widget area takes up space Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # Empty widget area takes up space * [miro011](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miro011/) * (@miro011) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-311/) * [https://i.gyazo.com/c2e233c21a8622dad3493c1a49c3fd1b.jpg](https://i.gyazo.com/c2e233c21a8622dad3493c1a49c3fd1b.jpg) * here is my website . I cant get that image to cover the screen from left to right because the area to the right of it is reserved for widgets . I deleted all widgets, tried a lot of things but I cant get it to go bigger length wise . If I change the header image , it works but I want every page to have a different image or no image so this image there is inside my home page , it is not a header image. * I tried looking at the code but I dont really have much knowledge about HTML . * Basically how do you remove space that is reserved for widgets in a theme ? ( its not in the options , code needs to be edited ) Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 17 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-311/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-311/page/2/?output_format=md) * Thread Starter [miro011](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miro011/) * (@miro011) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-311/#post-6458919) * I found this under theme functions * ` register_sidebar(array( ‘name’ => __(‘Under Header Sidebar’, ‘businesscard’),‘ id’ => ‘under-header-image-sidebar’, ‘description’ => __(‘This is the widgetized sidebar under the header image.’, ‘businesscard’ ), ‘before_widget’ => ‘
’, ‘after_widget’ => ‘
’, ‘before_title’ = > ‘

’, ‘after_title’ => ‘

’ )); register_sidebar(array( ‘name’ => __(‘ Left footer Sidebar’, ‘businesscard’ ), ‘id’ => ‘footer-sidebar-1’, ‘description’ => __(‘This is the widgetized sidebar.’, ‘businesscard’ ), ‘before_widget’ =>‘
’, ‘after_widget’ => ‘
’,‘ before_title’ => ‘

’, ‘after_title’ => ‘

’ )); register_sidebar(array(‘ name’ => __(‘Right Footer Sidebar’, ‘businesscard’ ), ‘id’ => ‘footer-sidebar- 2’, ‘description’ => __(‘This is the widgetized sidebar.’, ‘businesscard’ ), ‘ before_widget’ => ‘
’, ‘after_widget’ => ‘
’, ‘before_title’ => ‘

’, ‘after_title’ => ‘

’ )); } * Thread Starter [miro011](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miro011/) * (@miro011) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-311/#post-6458920) * do i just remove this code or what ? * Moderator [cubecolour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/numeeja/) * (@numeeja) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-311/#post-6458922) * That code registers the widget area, the widget area is added to the output in a separate code block. If you remove the code above you’ll probably get either an error message or a WSoD (white screen of disappointment) * Which theme are you using? Please provide a link to your site. * An if statement where the widget area is added would enable the widget area to only be output if it is not empty. The code to edit to add this would depend on the theme. * Thread Starter [miro011](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miro011/) * (@miro011) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-311/#post-6458925) * I already got a syntax error LOL , now what ? , I cant access the wordpress menu even * Moderator [cubecolour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/numeeja/) * (@numeeja) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-311/#post-6458927) * use an ftp app such as filezilla to restore the file you edited to a fresh copy from a download of the same version of the theme you are using * Thread Starter [miro011](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miro011/) * (@miro011) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-311/#post-6458928) * this is really frustrating because every single theme I install has something it it which I want out and in order to do that I have to edit code . I can do this and that with code , by that I mean find what I want but I have no idea what the different symbols and stuff mean as I have no knowledge about HTML . I will try learning something about it soon so I dont have problems like these. * Thread Starter [miro011](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miro011/) * (@miro011) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-311/#post-6458929) * [https://i.gyazo.com/6840bd1c08f6bc6cbcb20a118166b93c.png](https://i.gyazo.com/6840bd1c08f6bc6cbcb20a118166b93c.png) * where do I get the port from ? * Moderator [cubecolour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/numeeja/) * (@numeeja) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-311/#post-6458930) * your hosting company will be able to tell you, but it is most likely to be 21 * Thread Starter [miro011](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miro011/) * (@miro011) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-311/#post-6458932) * im about to give up on this . Anything related to programming and desgin has the absolute [quack] explanations ever . I went through quite a few tutorials all of them tell you download a FTP program , go to your theme file and edit it ? Are you kidding me ? Its way more complicated than that . Im really good with computers but Im only good at using stuff and I have no idea what people who give tutorials on programing are even talking about , all of them use some extremely weird words which I wouldnt use even if I knew what they meant . * Then you have to the website creating tutorials , telling you click this , click that , no explanation what so ever . * I know exactly what I want my site to look like , why cant they just make it as if I was creating a powerpoint presentation rather than having to go though all these options , most of which are useless , and all this code which I hate looking at . * Thread Starter [miro011](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miro011/) * (@miro011) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-311/#post-6458933) * it cant connect , why cant I just go to my host site and reset everything , how simple can that be ? * Moderator [cubecolour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/numeeja/) * (@numeeja) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-311/#post-6458937) * your hosting company will be able to advise you of the correct ftp connection settings to use * Thread Starter [miro011](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miro011/) * (@miro011) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-311/#post-6458938) * [https://i.gyazo.com/16bf855066782056bcbacac9043b0bbd.png](https://i.gyazo.com/16bf855066782056bcbacac9043b0bbd.png) * somehow I found the file i need , functions.php , so now I replace it with a fresh version ? * Moderator [cubecolour](https://wordpress.org/support/users/numeeja/) * (@numeeja) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-311/#post-6458941) * download a fresh copy of the same version your theme as you have on your site, extract the files from the zip, find the file equivalent to the one you edited& upload it to replace the edited one. * Thread Starter [miro011](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miro011/) * (@miro011) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-311/#post-6458945) * thank god I fixed it * So as for the sidebar thing , what exactly do i gotta do ? Thanks for the help man , I guess I will be learning java and html from tomorow on LOL * Thread Starter [miro011](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miro011/) * (@miro011) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-311/#post-6458948) * [https://wordpress.org/themes/business-card/](https://wordpress.org/themes/business-card/)– this is my theme * [http://www.firevelocity.com](http://www.firevelocity.com) – this is my website * not going to brag but i managed to remove the thing at the bottom ( footer ) that says The name of theme and has a ling to their site basically saving 50$ Viewing 15 replies - 1 through 15 (of 17 total) 1 [2](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-311/page/2/?output_format=md) [→](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-311/page/2/?output_format=md) The topic ‘Empty widget area takes up space’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 17 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [miro011](https://wordpress.org/support/users/miro011/) * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-help-311/page/2/#post-6458959) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics