Title: Optional sidebar
Last modified: November 8, 2023

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# Optional sidebar

 *  Resolved [hj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hj/)
 * (@hj)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optional-sidebar-2/)
 * The Twenty Sixteen theme blurb says…. “the horizontal masthead with an **optional
   right sidebar** that works perfectly for blogs and websites.”
 * I can’t see any place in the admin or customiser to invoke/revoke the sidebar.??
   Cunningly I thought ‘Maybe if I use a full width template then the sidebar will
   disappear by default’….except there is no full width template!
 * Crikey. This is a basic theme packaged with WordPress. If it says the sidebar
   is ‘optional’ surely there should be somewhere obvious to invoke the option? (
   in fact I want to revoke the sidebar, but out of the box 2016 opens with a sidebar.)
 * Help appreciated!
 * HJ

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 *  Moderator [jordesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jordesign/)
 * (@jordesign)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optional-sidebar-2/#post-17187277)
 * Hi [@hj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hj/),
 * That sidebar will show when there are widgets in the Sidebar area. If you are
   to go to Appearance > Widgets you’ll see the Sidebar area there.
 * You can delete the widgets and/or blocks within the sidebar – and it should stop
   showing in the site itself.
 *  Thread Starter [hj](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hj/)
 * (@hj)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optional-sidebar-2/#post-17188443)
 * Thank you [@jordesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jordesign/)!
 * Not the most intuitive option you’ll come across, but at least I know now!
 * regards
   HJ

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 * Last activity: [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/optional-sidebar-2/#post-17188443)
 * Status: resolved