Title: Adding new 3rd party widgets
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Adding new 3rd party widgets

 *  Resolved [knightlore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/knightlore/)
 * (@knightlore)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-new-widgets/)
 * Hi,
 * Does anyone know how to add a new widget. ie a third party one to wordpress 2.5.
 * I have tried a few things but just get the default ones.
 * Any ideas?
 * Thanks in Advance.

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-new-widgets/#post-731809)
 * Widgets are just fancy plugins. Which means you upload them into the wp-content/
   plugins folder and then go the the PLugins page in your admin to activate them.
   
   After activation they should show up in the Widegts page.
 *  Thread Starter [knightlore](https://wordpress.org/support/users/knightlore/)
 * (@knightlore)
 * [18 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-new-widgets/#post-731931)
 * Brill thanks got it working

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