Title: Conditional Output from Widget
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Conditional Output from Widget

 *  [Joshua Lyman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uplink/)
 * (@uplink)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-output-from-widget/)
 * I am currently widgetizing a theme that I made from a while ago, and have a question
   regarding how to work with the widget codes used in sidebars.
 * I have a widget sidebar defined, but it does not always show up, or it is a widget
   sidebar that is optional. However, when it _does_ show up, it needs to be wrapped
   in a container layer, for display purposes. I can’t do this through the before_
   or after_widget variables.
 * Is there a way I can test to see if the sidebar has been defined and called and
   output something before it spits out the rest of the code for the widget? Thanks!

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

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/conditional-output-from-widget/)
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