Hide sidebars from Category pages

[wyattwerner]

I'm using the Education theme, and have it set up to have two sidebars as its default layout. I have a few items in the navigation that lead to category pages, but I don't want those pages to have sidebars.

How can I hide the sidebar areas on a category page?

Thanks in adavance!

http://www.idahodairymens.org/category/letters-opinions/

[Brad Dalton]

You can use CSS or PHP code.

CSS: Use the class for sidebars and the body class for category pages with display: none as the declaration.

PHP: Would need to write a custom function.

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[wyattwerner]

I was hung up on the idea that I didn't have a page ID, but I can just use the category id. Bleh! Thanks!

I did this:

.category-11 .sidebar {
display:none;
}

I also made the content area wider to fill in the space left by the hidden sidebar:

.category-11 #content {
width: 875px;
}

[michiganseo]

wyattwerner,

On your home page, I noticed that both the blog posts are removed AND the PRIMARY SIDEBAR. How did you remove both of these from the homepage. I would like to do something similar.

Thanks!

[wyattwerner]

@michiganseo:

I added two lines of code to the bottom of functions.php (not my magic; I found it somewhere in the forum):

remove_action( 'genesis_loop', 'genesis_do_loop' );
remove_action( 'genesis_sidebar', 'genesis_do_sidebar' );

genesis();

Leave out the final "genesis" line; that's just to show where I put it in the file.

[michiganseo]

@wyattwerner:

Thank you so much for your response. That code removed the primary sidebar from all pages. I'm just looking to remove the primary sidebar from the home page -- similar to what you seem to do here: http://www.idahodairymens.org. Please let me know if you have a thought on that... Thanks again so much for your help!

[wyattwerner]

Aha! Sorry.

Don't do this in functions.php, but rather in home.php. That'll affect only the home page.

[michiganseo]

That makes sense... Adding those 2 lines of code to home.php eliminated the posts from displaying; however, the primary sidebar is still visible... strange... thanks for your efforts!

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