Title: create widget in plugin
Last modified: January 24, 2018

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# create widget in plugin

 *  [majidazadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/majidazadi/)
 * (@majidazadi)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-widget-in-plugin/)
 * hi.how can i create a widget in a plugin.is it like creating widget in a theme?
   
   i need a brief example if possible. regards.

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 *  [Jacob Peattie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jakept/)
 * (@jakept)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-widget-in-plugin/#post-9896721)
 * There’s no difference between doing it in a theme and a plugin.
 *  Thread Starter [majidazadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/majidazadi/)
 * (@majidazadi)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-widget-in-plugin/#post-9900556)
 * we need to extend wp_widget class in the class-wp-widget.php file.and register
   it with widget_init action hook in function.php file.how can we do theses via
   plugin files?

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

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 * Last reply from: [majidazadi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/majidazadi/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/create-widget-in-plugin/#post-9900556)
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