How to delete, not just remove, a sidebar

[Peter]

Peter

December 17, 2018 at 11:26 pm

When I was new to WordPress and Virtue, I created some sidebars without really knowing what I was doing. Now I have one called sidebar2 and another called menu_sidebar, and I’d like either to rename them to something meaningful, or preferably to delete them from the list completely.

Internet searches typically tell me this sort of thing: “You’ll need to edit index.php, archive.php, page.php, single.php, home.php and any other if they display sidebar.” Good grief. Is there no simpler way of erasing my two mistakes?

And yes, I know about using fullwidth pages and all that. Not what I’m after. I’ve found a plugin called Easy Custom Sidebars, which lets me create and delete sidebars, but not delete any of the existing sidebars.

Thanks
Walter