diff --git a/layouts/partials/sidebar.html b/layouts/partials/sidebar.html
index 1eed8c62252fbc2914e3a9dc189a388c559c5431..3279d609b46ac8eac1859f94bd1604071d5739a1 100644
--- a/layouts/partials/sidebar.html
+++ b/layouts/partials/sidebar.html
@@ -38,33 +38,6 @@
       {{ end }}<!--StatBanner-->
     {{ end }}<!--range-->
 
-   <!--<h3>recent post</h3>-->
-    {{ with $.Site.GetPage $dir }}
-      {{ range first $maxnum .Pages.ByDate.Reverse }}
-        {{$StatBanner := and (eq .Params.mkbanner true) (le now .Params.bannerEndDate) }}
-        {{ if ne $StatBanner true }}
-        {{ $.Scratch.Set "counter" (add ($.Scratch.Get "counter") 1) }}
-          {{ if le ($.Scratch.Get "counter") $maxnum }} 
-            {{ if .Params.bannerimg }} 
-              <div class="topic imgsize" onKeyPress="return true" onClick="link('{{ .Site.BaseURL }}{{ .RelPermalink }}')">
-                <img src="{{ .Site.BaseURL }}{{ .Params.bannerimg }}">
-              </div>
-            {{ else if .Params.image }} 
-              <div class="topic bannersize" onKeyPress="return true" onClick="link('{{ .Site.BaseURL }}{{ .RelPermalink }}')" style="background-image: url({{ .Site.BaseURL }}{{ .Params.image }});" >
-                <div class="title"> <h2> {{ .Title }} </h2> </div><br>
-                <div class="date"> Posted on {{dateFormat "2 Jan, 2006" .Params.date }}   </div>
-              </div>
-              
-            {{ else }}
-               <div class="topic bannersize" onKeyPress="return true" onClick="link('{{ .Site.BaseURL }}{{ .RelPermalink }}')" style="background-image: url({{ .Site.BaseURL }}{{ .Site.Params.defaultBannerImage }});" >
-                <div class="title"> <h2> {{ .Title }} </h2> </div><br>
-                 <div class="date"> Posted on {{dateFormat "2 Jan, 2006" .Params.date }}   </div>
-               </div>
-            {{ end }} <!--bannerimg-->
-          {{ end }} <!--num of banner-->
-        {{ end }}<!--exclude StatBanner-->
-      {{ end }}<!--range ByDate.Reverse-->
-    {{ end }}<!--from post-->
   <script src="{{ .Site.BaseURL }}js/topic.js"></script>
   </div> <!-- topic_list -->
 </div> <!-- sidebar -->