Title: [Plugin: Customize Meta Widget] Arguments not extracted
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Customize Meta Widget] Arguments not extracted

 *  [quasipickle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/quasipickle/)
 * (@quasipickle)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-customize-meta-widget-arguments-not-extracted/)
 * The `wp_widget_meta_modified()` function does not extract $args into the local
   variable space. Consequently, `$before_widget`, `$before_title`, etc are empty
   variables. I discovered this when wondering why the appearance of the title didn’t
   match the other widgets.
 * Adding this line fixed the problem:
    `extract($args);`

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