Question

Building my first WP theme and I quickly realized that I need to remove all the default widgets since I will be building my own.

So my question is what function do I need in my function.php file for this to happen =)

Thanks!

Answer 1

I think this is the code you’re looking for:

add_action( 'widgets_init', 'my_unregister_widgets' );

function my_unregister_widgets() {
    unregister_widget( 'WP_Widget_Pages' );
    unregister_widget( 'WP_Widget_Calendar' );
    unregister_widget( 'WP_Widget_Archives' );
    unregister_widget( 'WP_Widget_Links' );
    unregister_widget( 'WP_Widget_Categories' );
    unregister_widget( 'WP_Widget_Recent_Posts' );
    unregister_widget( 'WP_Widget_Search' );
    unregister_widget( 'WP_Widget_Tag_Cloud' );
}