How do you control sidebars when there's no get_sidebar in templates?

Question

I'm working with a WordPress 4.0 install, using Omega (the ThemeHall version; there are multiple Omega themes out there).

Most of the instructions I've seen to control whether the sidebar appears or not tell me to work with the get_sidebar tag.

This theme lets me turn the sidebar on everywhere or nowhere, so I've opted to turn it on universally so I can find, and remove, get_sidebar from page templates.

But when I look at all the .php files in the main theme folder, get_sidebar doesn't appear. Anywhere. Not in page.php, index.php, footer.php, etc. etc. etc.

This is where my WordPress-understanding-powers come to a screeching halt. If get_sidebar isn't in the page templates, where is it?

This is a typical page structure in the theme; this is page.php:

<?php
/**
 * The template for displaying all pages.
 *
 * This is the template that displays all pages by default.
 * Please note that this is the WordPress construct of pages
 * and that other 'pages' on your WordPress site will use a
 * different template.
 *
 * @package Omega
 */

get_header(); ?>

    <main  class="<?php echo omega_apply_atomic( 'main_class', 'content' );?>" <?php omega_attr( 'content' ); ?>>

        <?php 
        do_action( 'omega_before_content' ); 

        do_action( 'omega_content' ); 

        do_action( 'omega_after_content' ); 
        ?>

    </main><!-- .content -->

<?php get_footer(); ?>

In the absence of get_sidebar (and with sidebars turned on everywhere, I thought get_sidebar would appear somewhere in these templates), what's the best way of controlling which templates get sidebars and which don't?

Answer 1

In the ThemeHall Omega theme, the call to get_sidebar is wrapped in a function called omega_primary_sidebar. This can be found in hooks.php lines 180 to 185. This function then gets hooked to the omega_after_main action hook on line 35 and 36 in the same file