Title: Difference between plug ins and widgets?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Difference between plug ins and widgets?

 *  [spinchick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/spinchick/)
 * (@spinchick)
 * [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difference-between-plug-ins-and-widgets/)
 * I am running WP with the K2 theme. I am using the K2 sidebar module. I know I
   had to disable the WP widgets in order to preserve the K2 sidebars, but are plug
   ins different or are they the same as widgets? Thanks!

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

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/difference-between-plug-ins-and-widgets/)
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