{"id":1969,"date":"2021-06-05T20:33:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T20:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:10003\/?p=1969"},"modified":"2021-06-05T20:33:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T20:33:27","slug":"remove-the-sidebar-in-wp-rig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewpgeek.com\/remove-the-sidebar-in-wp-rig\/","title":{"rendered":"Remove the Sidebar on certain pages in Wp-Rig"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Theme developers often make the design decision to remove the sidebar in certain files. I recently needed to remove the sidebar for all files that used the single.php template. Easy I thought! I dropped the file from the optional folder into the main folder : <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>optional\/single.php --MOVE--&gt; \/single.php<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>the file single.php has a get_sidebar() function that needs to be removed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>&lt;?php\n\/**\n * The template for displaying all single posts.\n *\n * @see https:\/\/developer.wordpress.org\/themes\/basics\/template-hierarchy\/#single-post\n *\/\n\nnamespace WP_Rig\\WP_Rig;\n\nget_header();\n\nwp_rig()-&gt;print_styles('wp-rig-content');\n\n?&gt;\n\t&lt;main id=\"primary\" class=\"site-main\"&gt;\n\t\t&lt;?php\n\n        while (have_posts()) {\n            the_post();\n\n            get_template_part('template-parts\/content\/entry', get_post_type());\n        }\n        ?&gt;\n\t&lt;\/main&gt;&lt;!-- #primary --&gt;\n&lt;?php\n\/\/ get_sidebar() remove sidebar from single.php posts.\nget_footer();\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>But, unexpectedly this actually only gets us halfway &#8211; we have the sidebar gone, but we still have it taking up space, on closer inspection, a class is added &#8220;.has-sidebar&#8221; so let&#8217;s work at removing that. Load up .\/<strong>inc\/Sidebars\/Component.php<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code> \/**\n     * Adds custom classes to indicate whether a sidebar is present to the array of body classes.\n     *\n     * @param array $classes classes for the body element\n     *\n     * @return array filtered body classes\n     *\/\n    public function filter_body_classes(array $classes): array\n    {\n        if ($this-&gt;is_primary_sidebar_active()) {\n            global $template;\n\n            if (!in_array(basename($template), &#91;'front-page.php', 'single.php', '404.php', '500.php', 'offline.php'])) {\n                $classes&#91;] = 'has-sidebar';\n            }\n        }\n\n        return $classes;\n    }\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>find the above code, where you will see an array of pages that don&#8217;t have that sidebar class added, just add single.php as I have above. (or whatever template file you need to remove the sidebar).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theme developers often make the design decision to remove the sidebar in certain files. I recently needed to remove the sidebar for all files that used the single.php template. Easy I thought! 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