Title: Using Widgets Without the Widget
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Using Widgets Without the Widget

 *  [pipelineae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pipelineae/)
 * (@pipelineae)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-widgets-without-the-widget/)
 * Lots of Ws in the title, I know.
 * My question is this:
 * If I have a plugin that creates and uses a widget, is it possible to tap into
   the functionality of that widget without putting the widget in my sidebar, and
   if so, how?
 * I know a decent amount of php, mostly self taught, but over the past few weeks
   I’ve been messing around with my wordpress mu source a lot, and this came up.
 * So yeah, if I can, how. And if I can’t, will I just have to spend a lot of time
   modding the plugin to work without the widget?

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 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-widgets-without-the-widget/#post-684910)
 * I have to provide a giant maybe to this question.
 * It depends a whole heck of a lot on the widget, though with some proper preparation
   you might be able to call at least some function(s) direct from a widget, especially
   if it does not require any arguments.
 *  Thread Starter [pipelineae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pipelineae/)
 * (@pipelineae)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-widgets-without-the-widget/#post-684917)
 * Alright, thanks for the reply.
 * I don’t know much about widgets really, so I guess I’m left with plan B: Make
   my own plugin based loosely off the mod I made that uses the widget. Oh well,
   shouldn’t take too long.
 * Thanks again

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 * Last reply from: [pipelineae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pipelineae/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/using-widgets-without-the-widget/#post-684917)
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