Title: Remove Ephemera widget
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Remove Ephemera widget

 *  [Mrmark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrmark/)
 * (@mrmark)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-ephemera-widget/)
 * After some mucking about, I figured out how to remove the Ephemera widget (obligatory
   on showcase template pages). I’m no php expert, but in my child theme I created
   a functions.php document then added this function to it. It overrides the parent
   theme by unregistering the ephemera widget *after* it’s been registered.
 * Since the widget_init() function assigns no priority number (default=10, higher
   numbers come later), I added a priority of 11 – putting it after registration
   occurs.
 *     ```
       <?php
       	// added to remove ephemera widget
       function unregister_problem_widgets() {
       unregister_widget( 'Twenty_Eleven_Ephemera_Widget' );
       }
       add_action('widgets_init','unregister_problem_widgets',11);
       ?>
       ```
   

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 *  [john_6x6](https://wordpress.org/support/users/john_6x6/)
 * (@john_6x6)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-ephemera-widget/#post-2195122)
 * Thanks a bunch for this fix. I assume it should be a bug fixed in the next update
   or two. I also noticed after doing a WP upgrade from 3.2 to 3.2.1 it appeared
   again on the sidebar. I deleted it this time instead of dragging it out and it
   stayed away. I then made the mistake of adding it again to the sidebar and couldn’t
   get rid of it again – until your fix.

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