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Created January 8, 2015 20:36
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WordPress : Unregistering Parent Theme Sidebar in Child Theme
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// Remove 2012 default sidebar widgets from admin area
// http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/unregister_sidebar
// following code will remove/unregister 2012 sidebars from admin area
// you can unregister any sidebar just replave sidebar-1 sidebar-2 and sidebar-3 with your sidebar id. you can find sidebar id's
// in parent theme's functions.php file
// http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/unregister_sidebar for more details
function remove_some_widgets(){
// Unregister some of the TwentyTen sidebars
unregister_sidebar( 'sidebar-1' );
unregister_sidebar( 'sidebar-2' );
unregister_sidebar( 'sidebar-3' );
}
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'remove_some_widgets', 11 );
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Above code will un register sidebar of any theme and hide sidebars in WordPress dashboard.
I created a 2012 child theme and added above code in 2012 child theme's functions.php file to remove default 2012 widget from admin area.

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