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i’m trying to do the same thing right now. looks like you’re going to have to search through each PHP file in the bbPress theme and remove the following code:

<?php get_sidebar)(); ?>

it’s the only way that i can think of… which is neither fast nor easy.

WR!

It’s also worth noting that you need to make sure and create your own bbP theme if you are going to modify it.

If you edit the core theme that is inside the bbPress plugin directory you will lose all your customizations next time you update.

Is this the proper approach? removing all of the php get_sidebar() function calls?

I found it easier just to do it by CSS.

All of the bbPress pages will put a class of .bbPress on the body tag.
My sidebar is #primary.

So what I did was this small bit of css:

.bbPress #primary {
display: none;
}

Then I added in some extra CSS to extend the width, easy!

I think the difficult part about sidebars is knowing what the sidebar is called or what ID it is.

You could probably add this into your functions file if you know the id of the sidebar you want to hide, I haven’t tested it though.

http://pastebin.com/pvbQ8nuK

Worth a shot!

• This reply was modified 12 years, 4 months ago by Lynq.

You could try something like this (for an install that also has BuddyPress):

function disable_all_widgets( $sidebars_widgets ) {       
    if ( function_exists('is_bbpress') ) {
        if (is_bbpress()) {
            $sidebars_widgets = array(false);
            remove_all_actions('bp_register_widgets');
            unregister_sidebar( 'bp_core_widgets' );
        }
    }
    return $sidebars_widgets;
}

add_filter('sidebars_widgets', 'disable_all_widgets', 1, 1);

Thank you, nguyenkinh, that worked for me 🙂