Title: Sidebars not working
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Sidebars not working

 *  Resolved [universal1914](https://wordpress.org/support/users/universal1914/)
 * (@universal1914)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebars-not-working-6/)
 * Hi there!
 * Undoubtedly I must be doing something wrong. But I just can’t change anything
   on sidebars. I tried the empty text widget trick to clear the “call to action”
   section at the bottom, but it just kept there… No way to erase or even customize
   that area. Any ideas?
 * I tried deactivating plugins, so as to make sure none of them was causing any
   issue, but nothing changed.
 * I’d deeply appreciate any help with this.
 * literal.cl

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 *  Theme Author [Tim Nicholson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timnicholson/)
 * (@timnicholson)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebars-not-working-6/#post-6239917)
 * Hmm. Adding anything to the page bottom widget area should remove the sample 
   widget. If you want to go nuclear on it, you could edit sidebar-pagebottom.php.
   Or even easier, you can set this line in functions.php:
    `'sample_widgets' =>
   true,`
 * to this:
    `'sample_widgets' => false,`
 *  Thread Starter [universal1914](https://wordpress.org/support/users/universal1914/)
 * (@universal1914)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebars-not-working-6/#post-6239918)
 * Thanks for the answer!
 * I’m gonna try and let you know.
 *  [denisflahaut](https://wordpress.org/support/users/denisflahaut/)
 * (@denisflahaut)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebars-not-working-6/#post-6239924)
 * hi,
    I just installed a proud new own server last week. I switched from joomla
   to wordpress with flat bootstrap theme ! I’m very satisfied … but I have two 
   problems : 1/ I wanted to erase “call for action” … your proposal was fine ! 
   2/ I wanted to add widgets in other sidebars … excepted the right sidebar, no
   other one can be setup .. Any Idea ? Yours, Denis
 *  Theme Author [Tim Nicholson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timnicholson/)
 * (@timnicholson)
 * [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebars-not-working-6/#post-6239940)
 * Hi. The above code will remove the sample widgets from the “Page Bottom” widget
   area. That should only turn off the sample widgets. You should still be able 
   to add any widget you want to the Page Bottom (or Page Top) widget area. Try 
   a simple Text widget first with just a sentence or two in it.

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 * Last reply from: [Tim Nicholson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timnicholson/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebars-not-working-6/#post-6239940)
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