Title: Activate a Widget
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Activate a Widget

 *  [leticia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leticia5959/)
 * (@leticia5959)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activate-a-widget/)
 * Hi
 * I have a plugin that register a new widget.
    Then the user have to enable the
   widget in the widget administration page.
 * How can I activate (enable) a widget after register it in the code of my plugin?(
   then the user don’t need to activate this widget manually)
 * Thanks in advanced.

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 *  [deluxethemes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deluxethemes/)
 * (@deluxethemes)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activate-a-widget/#post-1180689)
 * I am looking for the exact same thing. Auto-activation for widgets. Didn’t find
   any working method (At least for WP 2.8) on the web. Any input guys?
 *  [tittiger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tittiger/)
 * (@tittiger)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activate-a-widget/#post-1180726)
 * Want to delete this post I found the answer……..
 * Joe
 *  [Jauhari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jauhari/)
 * (@jauhari)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activate-a-widget/#post-1180749)
 * So the answer is?
    Please share
 *  [anil88](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anil88/)
 * (@anil88)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activate-a-widget/#post-1180785)
 * I am looking for the exact same thing , could you please share the answer ……..

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## Tags

 * [activate](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/activate/)
 * [automatic](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/automatic/)
 * [widget](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/widget/)

 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [anil88](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anil88/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/activate-a-widget/#post-1180785)
 * Status: not resolved

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