Title: Using Multisite Widgets on Multiple Sites?
Last modified: December 12, 2018

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# Using Multisite Widgets on Multiple Sites?

 *  [multimediocrity](https://wordpress.org/support/users/multimediocrity/)
 * (@multimediocrity)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-multisite-widgets-on-multiple-sites/)
 * Hi! I have a WP Multisite installed. I have a bunch of widgets in the footer 
   of my main site which I’d like to show on my subsites as well. It doesn’t seem
   like I can grab widget information from other sites without writing a MySQL PHP
   database grab script.
 * Is there a way to present a widget from the main site on other sites of my multisite?
 * Thanks!
    -  This topic was modified 7 years, 6 months ago by [multimediocrity](https://wordpress.org/support/users/multimediocrity/).

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-multisite-widgets-on-multiple-sites/#post-10975317)
 * Not directly. Every site, with the exception of users, uses its own set of DB
   tables to store data, so mixing of data is not feasible when accessed directly.
   As you say, grabbing data directly from the DB will allow you to cross over since
   all the sites are in the same DB, but you cannot use WP functions to directly
   get data from other sites.
 * Note that I keep hedging what I say with “directly”. Indirect access is another
   story. You can call switch_blog() to cause WP PHP functions to operate as though
   its for another site. Once you get the data from another site this way, switch
   back to the proper site. For example, sub-site themes could have a custom footer
   template whose code switches blog to the main site, calls dynamic_sidebar() which
   outputs the site’s widgets for the specified widget area. Then switch back so
   any further code is operating on the correct site again.
 * That example is untested. It may be certain WP functions don’t work off of the
   current blog concept altered with switch_blog(). If they don’t, the switch blog
   approach will not work. I don’t really know which work and which don’t. Do a 
   quick proof of concept test before dedicating too much time implementing untested
   ideas.

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-multisite-widgets-on-multiple-sites/#post-10975317)
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