Title: custom-sidebars – Plugin removal
Last modified: January 31, 2021

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# custom-sidebars – Plugin removal

 *  Resolved [MauriceB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mauriceb/)
 * (@mauriceb)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sidebars-plugin-removal/)
 * I no longer need this plugin, so how do I perform a clean removal without affecting
   anything else on the site?

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 *  Plugin Author [WebFactory](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webfactory/)
 * (@webfactory)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sidebars-plugin-removal/#post-13985108)
 * If you’re not using any custom sidebars and you don’t have any widgets in them,
   then you can remove the plugin. If you do have custom sidebars, then you can’t
   remove the plugin without losing those sidebars and widgets.
 *  Thread Starter [MauriceB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mauriceb/)
 * (@mauriceb)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sidebars-plugin-removal/#post-13985842)
 * Thanks,I did try de-activating the plugin without deleting it on my staging site.
   The only problem observed was a loss of all Events in “The Events Calendar”, 
   but this could well have been due to other maintenance tasks at the time.

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 * Last reply from: [MauriceB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mauriceb/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sidebars-plugin-removal/#post-13985842)
 * Status: resolved