Title: Widget Errors from Uninitialized Options
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Widget Errors from Uninitialized Options

 *  [AJStacy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajstacy/)
 * (@ajstacy)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-errors-from-uninitialized-options/)
 * I have been teaching myself how to code custom widgets in wordpress and I have
   most of it figured out except how I initialize my widget options. Currently, 
   when you first activate my events list widget, php gives me errors because it
   can’t find the options in the table, but if I click “save” once, it creates the
   options and I no longer have a problem.
 * My Question is: How do I get them into the options DB beforehand to avoid the
   error?
 * _[119 lines of code moderated as per the [Forum Rules](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Posting_Code).
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 *  Thread Starter [AJStacy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajstacy/)
 * (@ajstacy)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-errors-from-uninitialized-options/#post-2336269)
 * Any ideas? (bump)

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