Title: Using Same Custom Text Widget on Multiple Pages
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Using Same Custom Text Widget on Multiple Pages

 *  Resolved [atooley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/atooley/)
 * (@atooley)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-same-custom-text-widget-on-multiple-pages/)
 * I have been using this plugin to customize sidebars on each page of my website.
   It works great for what I need.
 * I was wondering if there is anyway to use the same widget multiple times, so 
   that if I need to change something, I can change it in one place and it will 
   update on all sidebars.
 * For example, lets say I use two different disclaimers, one on 30 pages and one
   on 25 pages. Is it possible to just create each one once and use them in multiple
   sidebars?
 * Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-sidebars/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-sidebars/)

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 *  [David](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ugotsta/)
 * (@ugotsta)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-same-custom-text-widget-on-multiple-pages/#post-4809102)
 * Hi [@atooley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/atooley/),
 * Hope you’re well today! 🙂
 * I can’t really think of a way to clone widgets like that with this plugin alone.
   But perhaps you might be able to achieve that using this?
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-widget/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicate-widget/)
 * It’s a bit older, but I do think it’d work still. Perhaps you could give that
   a go?
 * Cheers,
    David
 *  Thread Starter [atooley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/atooley/)
 * (@atooley)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-same-custom-text-widget-on-multiple-pages/#post-4809321)
 * Thanks David,
 * Just getting back to this. Based on the support forum for that plugin, it looks
   like it does not work with this one.
 * Does WPMU have any plans to create something like that plugin to go along with
   this one?
 * Otherwise, do you think it is possible to include a bit of standardized text 
   into the template that would go along with Custom Sidebars? Then a webmaster 
   could use different templates along with Custom Sidebars for vary standardized
   bits of text by page (let’s say 40 pages use one block of text and 30 use a different
   block of text, but I don’t want to create 40 widgets for one and 30 for the other).
 * Thanks!
 *  [David](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ugotsta/)
 * (@ugotsta)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-same-custom-text-widget-on-multiple-pages/#post-4809327)
 * Hi [@atooley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/atooley/),
 * Thanks for your reply.
 * If you add this to your functions.php file or using Code Snippets ([http://wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets/)),
   you’ll be able to use shortcodes in text widgets:
 *     ```
       add_filter('widget_text', 'do_shortcode');
       ```
   
 * You could then throw together a shortcode that displays something different based
   on the page it’s used on:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API](http://codex.wordpress.org/Shortcode_API)
 * Or as a plugin based workaround, perhaps you could use this?
    [https://wordpress.org/plugins/conditional-widgets/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/conditional-widgets/)
 * It seems kind of a strange workaround to me but using conditional widgets should
   let you display different widget content based on the page.
 * Perhaps one of those methods will work for you?
 * Cheers,
    David

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-same-custom-text-widget-on-multiple-pages/#post-4809327)
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