Twenty Fourteen does not set priority for sidebars

[WPMUDEV-Support6]

The summary pretty much sums the problem. :)

This might be a bug, or might be left there intentionally, but I doubt it.

In short people can't unregister sidebars from their child themes.
I know this is not the place for this, but I do not have permissions here - ​https://themes.trac.wordpress.org/newticket

It is on line 198 in functions.php

add_action( 'widgets_init', 'twentyfourteen_widgets_init' );

and should be something like this:

add_action( 'widgets_init', 'twentyfourteen_widgets_init', 10 );

[ocean90]

#30805 was marked as a duplicate.

[nacin]

All hooks have a priority. The default is 10. add_action( 'widgets_init', 'twentyfourteen_widgets_init' ); sets priority to 10. To remove this, you simply call remove_action( 'widgets_init', 'twentyfourteen_widgets_init' ) (when priority is 10) or remove_action( 'widgets_init', 'twentyfourteen_widgets_init', 10 ) (to be explicit).

[fmarzocca]

Replying to nacin:

To remove this, you simply call remove_action( 'widgets_init', 'twentyfourteen_widgets_init' ) (when priority is 10) or remove_action( 'widgets_init', 'twentyfourteen_widgets_init', 10 ) (to be explicit).

This doesn't work. The sidebar is still there.

[dd32]

The duplicate ticket had this extra information:

What all that means is that my code being in child theme is called before the code in the main theme functions.php and I unregister the sidebar, but then the main theme register it.
There is no priority I could assign to my unregister_sidebar as in this case it is missing in the parent theme.

The remove_action call will need to be made during the after_setup_theme hook to work.

[fmarzocca]

Still no luck with the following code. Could it be a matter of priority?

function child_function() {

	remove_action( 'widgets_init', 'twentyfourteen_widgets_init',10);
}
add_action( 'after_setup_theme', 'child_function' );

[nacin]

That code works for me. If you need more help, please try the support forums: ​https://wordpress.org/support/.