Remove sidebar from 404 error page
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Hi Jason,
Sorry to bother you again. My client noticed that when he Google’s a non-existent page on our website, the 404 error comes up with the default sidebar in it. It looks like this:
Is it possible to get rid of that sidebar?
Liz
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Hi,
If you go to Appearance > Widget Areas, you can create a custom widget area and apply it to the right sidebar location and give it the 404 page assignment. Then just leave the widget area blank at Appearance > Widgets.
But honestly, why would you want to do this? You want your 404 pages to have content and crawlable links for search engines, which is what your sidebar gives you. It’s set up perfectly the way it is to push google crawlers onto your archives and through to your content.
Also, if you wanted to programmatically make 404 pages only all be a “full-width” sidebar layout (i.e. no sidebar), you can do it by simply filtering the
themeblvd_sidebar_layoutfrom your child theme functions.php.http://dev.themeblvd.com/tutorial/sidebar-layouts/#custom
function my_sidebar_layout( $sidebar_layout ) { if ( is_404() ) { $sidebar_layout = 'full_width'; } return $sidebar_layout; } add_filter( 'themeblvd_sidebar_layout', 'my_sidebar_layout' );I want it removed because we don’t blog.
I tried to remove it by creating a widget area, but it didn’t work. I think it’s because I have named the page incorrectly. I don’t even know if there is a page for 404. I did not create it. Is it within the theme php?
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