Title: Activating Sidebar Widgets
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Activating Sidebar Widgets

 *  Resolved [michaelbb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelbb/)
 * (@michaelbb)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-sidebar-widgets/)
 * When I activate the Automatic sidebar widgets I am getting the following error
   and really do not understand this in full so any and all assistance is appreciated,
   suggestions of fixing .
 * Cannot redeclare register_sidebars() (previously declared in /home/michaelb/public_html/
   wp-includes/widgets.php:15) in /home/michaelb/public_html/wp-content/plugins/
   widgets/widgets.php on line 22
 * I am not sure how duplicate entries could be made, but thats why I am posting
   here also.
 * Thanks in advance.

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-sidebar-widgets/#post-652671)
 * You do NOT need the widgets plugin in your version. It is built-in. Deactivate/
   delete the widgest plugin.

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## Tags

 * [automatic](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/automatic/)
 * [widget](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/widget/)

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activating-sidebar-widgets/#post-652671)
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