[Resolved] Unknown and unwanted meta widgets

[Grant]

Hello,

I just updated this page on my website with some WP-Show-Posts code. An unwanted search bar and archives widget showed up and I can’t work out why they did.

I have checked the existing widgets for the side bar, footer etc. and there is nothing to be found. I also checked the custom CSS and cannot find anything.

Please could you take a look and let me know how to remove them?

Thank you,
Grant

[David]

Hi there,

do you want a left sidebar?
If you do, add your own widget to it, and the automatically displayed widgets will be replaced.
If you do not, then disable the sidebar in the Customizer > Layout > Sidebars.

[Grant]

Hi David,

Thanks for the quick reply. I don’t want the sidebar and already had it disabled. See here.

Weirdly, it is only on this page that it shows.

[David]

If you edit that page, check the Layout Meta box:

https://docs.generatepress.com/article/sidebar-layout/

To make sure it has not been set to show a sidebar

[Grant]

Thanks, David. It was set to show a left sidebar. I updated everything to “default” and then tried no “sidebars”. But for some reason it keeps reverting back to showing the left side bar. Is there anything else I might try?

[Ying]

First, make sure the layout metabox in the page editor is set to default.

Then check if there’s a layout element at appearance > elements.

If so, does the layout element set the page/pages to have a left sidebar?

[Grant]

Hi again,

It seems that the page was created with Sections. When I activated Sections, the layout issue / sidebar disappeared. Please could you explain why this happened?

As a follow-on question, is it possible to add a shortcode to Sections?

Thank you,

Grant

[Ying]

Hi Grant,

The sections module is a very very old legacy module, it’s to create full-width layout.

If your site is created with sections, make sure the sections module is activated.

Or you can try rebuilding your site using the modern way: blocks!

[Grant]

Thanks, Ying. Somehow it is only this page that is built with sections. 🙂 Thanks for the help and info!

[Ying]

No problem 🙂

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