Creating a Page in WordPress with No Sidebars
These instructions and accompanying video are specific to Thesis. <—–yes, it is an affiliate link!
Each theme has different restrictions so these instructions may or may not work for your theme.
The alternative to this would be wanting to only display certain widgets or sidebar items on specific posts or pages. The best tool I’ve found for doing this is to download and install the Section Widget.
I discuss two different options and uses for the Section Widget in: Section Widget PlugIn: Post 1 of 2 and Section Widget PlugIn Review: Post 2 of 2 though to create just one page with no sidebars using this would be somewhat time intensive it does at least offer you an alternative option.
To Create a new WordPress page with no sidebars (from your dashboard):
- Pages>Add New
- On the right hand side if you scroll down about 1/2 way you will see “Default Template” >>From the drop down box chose “No Sidebars”
- Create your new page and voila you have no sidebars
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January 5, 2010 at 2:14 pm
Hi Michelle,
It seems that Thesis is getting a lot of play from IT/IM blogging professionals. One of my mastermind members swears by it and suggests that I should bite the bullet and set up a blog from scratch using Thesis (and thereby learn a lot of valuable backroom type of stuff).
To your success in 2010 and beyond!
best………….valentina
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Valentina – thanks for stopping by my blog! Yes, I swear by Thesis too though I have also heard great things on Headway – that is allegedly even easier to use. So the next site I do is going to be with that so I can get my toes wet with that one!
I’m not sure why people would want to hide their sidebars, however I’d love to be able to hide my keywords. I can get them to the bottom of my posts (instead of at the top) by changing my theme, however I don’t know how to hide the keywords altogether. Also I am trying to figure out how to unzip keyword love and add it to my wordpress blog.
Sarah – so far the only time I’ve actually wanted no sidebars to display is on the Contact Page of several of the sites I have done – just so it’s less cluttered per se!
I think the keyword hiding is probably something related to the theme you use – Thesis, for example gives us the option to show our tags and I don’t!
KeywordLuv – you should be able to install from the zip like any other plugin. Let me know how it works out for you.
Yep! Not only contact pages or about pages, I hide sidebars in Media kit pages as well.. helps you to write lot of content and add bigger screenshots when there is no sidebar
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Bangaloreloka – what is a Media Kit page?
These are great instructions. I love the Thesis template because the text layout is beautiful. And without all the sidebars, it looks even better!
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Richard – I love my Thesis Theme too!