Title: Use before_widget in sidebar.php?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Use before_widget in sidebar.php?

 *  [mikedev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikedev/)
 * (@mikedev)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-before_widget-in-sidebarphp/)
 * I want to style an item in a sidebar as if it were a widget.
 * I tried this code in sidebar.php, but it doesn’t display the widget wrapper:
 *     ```
       <?php echo $before_widget ?>
       my code
       <?php echo $after_widget ?>
       ```
   
 * It seems to only work in functions.php. Is there a way to get before_widget to
   work in a template like sidebar.php?

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/use-before_widget-in-sidebarphp/)
 * Status: not resolved

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