Title: Request: get_the_widget() function
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Request: get_the_widget() function

 *  [digitalnature](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digitalnature/)
 * (@digitalnature)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-get_the_widget-function/)
 * Hi!
 * Currently, in wp 2.8 you can output a arbitrary widget anywhere in the theme 
   with “the_widget()” function.
 * The problem is that the output cannot be stored in a variable, so the theme author
   cannot allow the user to place this widget anywhere inside a post for example(
   eg. using shortcodes)
    Something just like “get_the_content” is to “the_content”..
 * I’m using PHP buffer output to achieve this (ob_get_contents), but I don’t know
   if this the best way to do it.
 * Is there any chance you can add a function that does this in 3.0?
 * tx

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/request-get_the_widget-function/)
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