Title: Feature Request – more than one widget instance for posts …
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Feature Request – more than one widget instance for posts …

 *  [chuckingit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chuckingit/)
 * (@chuckingit)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-more-than-one-widget-instance-for-posts/)
 * Hi – i was loving this plugin until i realized that i can only create one instance
   of the Recent Posts thereby not being able to have multiple widgets e.g., would
   have like to have had one in sidebar showing site-x, and another widget recent
   posts in footer showing site-y … but as it is now, this plugin will only allow
   one instance …
 * cheers – chuck scott

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 *  [Samuel Coskey](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sgcoskey/)
 * (@sgcoskey)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-more-than-one-widget-instance-for-posts/#post-2196427)
 * I second this! It is such a flexible widget, it would be great to use it in two
   different ways.
    Thanks! Sam
 *  [redlegoreng](https://wordpress.org/support/users/redlegoreng/)
 * (@redlegoreng)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-more-than-one-widget-instance-for-posts/#post-2196478)
 * Hi ! Same request here, it would be great !
 * In the meantime, for those who aren’t afraid of getting dirty, here’s a workaround(
   making a clone of the plugin) :
 * 1) Choose a beautiful name for the widget’s clone (i chose “diam**u**nd”)
    2)
   Duplicate the whole “diamond_multisite_widgets” folder 3) Replace all files names
   by replacing “diamond” with “diamund” including the main folder 4) Using a powerful
   text editor (as Textmate on mac), replace the string “diamond” with the name 
   you chose (i.e. “diamund”) in all the files of the widget folder 5) Using the
   same powerful text editor, replace `update_option('` with `update_option('diamund_`
   and `get_option('` with `get_option('diamund_` 6) In the `functions.php` file,
   for every function (3 times), add this before : `if(!function_exists(‘FUNCTION_NAME’)){
   and this after : `}` (Of course, replace FUNCTION_NAME by the actual name of 
   the function) 7) It may be possible that you need to do the same in your original
   widget file, so copy your function.php file in that folder too. 8) Activate your
   new widget. It works exactly as the real one and should not interfere.
 * 9) Repeat the process using another name as many times as you need…
 * Note : I’m a wordpress newbie, so i can’t tell but it could possibly be very 
   bad to do this at home

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-more-than-one-widget-instance-for-posts/#post-2196478)
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