Title: Adding default widgets not specific to theme
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Adding default widgets not specific to theme

 *  [pkucera](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pkucera/)
 * (@pkucera)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-default-widgets-not-specific-to-theme/)
 * Is there a way to add to the default widgets without specifying them in a theme
   or modifying the default_widgets.php file? I would like to add some non-theme
   specific widgets but I do not want to have to worry about overwriting the default_widgets
   file every time I upgrade. I was hoping there was some kind of hook that automatically
   includes another file like more_default_widgets.php from the wp_content root 
   folder.
 * Thanks,
 * Pete

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 * [default widgets](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/default-widgets/)
 * [widgets](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/widgets/)

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