Yes. You need to go into your sidebar.php from your editor and scroll down towards the bottom until you see archives and categories and just delete them.

Steve

Thanks for the help!

Webweaver said:

Before I discovered this post, I fixed this issue by dragging a blank text widget to both left and right sidebar widget positions.  This blocks the automatic Archive and Category display built into the theme. 

Not that the PHP file edit take more than a couple minutes but I figured some folks not as comfortable with the edits might appreciate the quick and dirty method ;)

 

You are absolutely right. The only problem is that this does not always fix the problem, largely becasue of coding conflicts or some other thing– I have no idea what…

That's when editing sidebar.php is necessary. So try placing the empty text widget in to the top sidebar module, first. If that doesn't work, you'll need to find this bit of coding (about 3/4 way down the sidebar.php page):

<div class="Categ">
      <h2>Categories</h2>
      <ul>
        <?php wp_list_categories('orderby=name&title_li='); ?>
      </ul>
    </div>

And delete it. Oddly enough, you should not need to find the Archives coding. Taking out the "Categ" coding does the trick.

Okayyyyy… hmmm. I haven't heard of any site where that did not work. Sorry! And at this point, I'm not sure if taking out the rest of the coding will help, but you can trty.

Right after where the categ div was, is some adsense info. Leave that alone.

Directly after that is the right sidebar info and the links/archives coding is there.

<h2>Archives</h2>
    <ul>
      <?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>
    </ul>
    <h2>Links</h2>
    <ul>
      <?php wp_list_bookmarks('title_li=&categorize=0'); ?>

    </ul>   

<br/>

 

Delete it. Now, to be fair, I haven't tried this so make a back up copy of sidebar.php before you do this. If it doesn't work, you'll at least be able to restore it.

Good luck!

~cj