Title: genesis plugins
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# genesis plugins

 *  [geeday](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geeday/)
 * (@geeday)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/genesis-plugins/)
 * Can someone give me a clue about genesis plugins. I’m happy with “normal” plugins,
   but cannot see how to get plugins in to the ‘widget’ page. I’m going a little
   crazy….
 * thanks in advance

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 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/genesis-plugins/#post-2539606)
 * Genesis plugins only work with genesis themes.
 * If it is a plugins that gives you a widget, then the widget shows up under Appearance-
   > widgets.
 *  Thread Starter [geeday](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geeday/)
 * (@geeday)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/genesis-plugins/#post-2539704)
 * Thanks for the reply. So I need to build a specific Genesis plugin. I have Google,
   but yet to find a suitable example of how to write the code for the widget, and
   how to make sure it appears in the list.
 * thanks again
 *  [Andrea Rennick](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andrea_r/)
 * (@andrea_r)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/genesis-plugins/#post-2539749)
 * No – I said that any plugin in the repo marke dwith “genesis”will only work with
   genesis this. 😉 This does not mean the reverse.
 * If you are just making a widget, the process is the same regardless of theme.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Widgets_API#Developing_Widgets](http://codex.wordpress.org/Widgets_API#Developing_Widgets)
 *  Thread Starter [geeday](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geeday/)
 * (@geeday)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/genesis-plugins/#post-2539750)
 * I missed the point about a widget and a plugin. I have to create a widget which
   starts:
    class my_Widget extends WP_Widget { } I found this by reversing engineering,
   but the link you supplied will make things a lot clearer.
 * cheers

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