Title: Adding Multiple Widgets to dashboard
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Adding Multiple Widgets to dashboard

 *  Resolved [hoofedcracker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hoofedcracker/)
 * (@hoofedcracker)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-multiple-widgets-to-dashboard/)
 * Hi,
    How can one add Multiple widgets to the admin dashboard? I have this:
 *     ```
       function dashboard_widget_first_function() {echo 'CONTENTS';}
       function add_dashboard_widgets() {wp_add_dashboard_widget('dashboard_widget_first', 'Widget Name', 'dashboard_widget_first_function');}
       add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'add_dashboard_widgets' );
       ```
   
 * _
    [Please use the backticks or code buttons when posting code – thanks.]
 * Which adds one (1) widget, I have tried duplicating etc (with different function
   names) but it seems to corrupt the script. Cheers!

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-multiple-widgets-to-dashboard/#post-3334063)
 * You can only add the widget once in script, and that’s all you need. Once it 
   appears with the available widgets, you can drag it multiple times into any area.
   This action creates new instances of the same widget each time. Each instance
   is it’s own object and can be customized independently of the others.
 *  Thread Starter [hoofedcracker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hoofedcracker/)
 * (@hoofedcracker)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/adding-multiple-widgets-to-dashboard/#post-3334071)
 * Thank you for the response.

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 * [dashboard](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/dashboard/)
 * [multiple widgets](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multiple-widgets/)

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