Im creating my own theme. When I have a clean wordpress installation, there are some default widgets in the sidebar (search, category, recent posts etc). I know that I can remove them from the sidebar by adding a widget to that sidebar, but I want them removed in the sidebar by default. Is there a way to do that without disabling the widget (unregister_widget())?
3 Answers
This function will disable all widgets:
add_filter( 'sidebars_widgets', 'wpse134172_disable_all_widgets' );
function wpse134172_disable_all_widgets( $sidebars_widgets ) {
if (true == true) {
$sidebars_widgets = array( false );
}
return $sidebars_widgets;
}
Now the true=true
conditional will disable them all the time, while you only want this to happen with a clean install. So you will have to add a different conditional. Which one depends on your actual purpose.
You could use is_active_widget
to test whether only the standard widgets are active.
Another option would be to use the after_switch_theme
hook to make the deactivation only happen when your theme is activated.
You could even detect whether the user has visited the widgets page in the backend and decide that after this he apparently is cool with the widgets as they are. This would involve setting an option in the database.