Title: Editing sidebar.php after adding widgets
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Editing sidebar.php after adding widgets

 *  [informedvote](https://wordpress.org/support/users/informedvote/)
 * (@informedvote)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-sidebarphp-after-adding-widgets/)
 * Hello,
 * I just finished creating my own theme, during which time I had manually edited
   and customized the sidebar.php file in the theme folder.
 * After installing and adding widgets through the admin interface, it seems to 
   now be accessing a different file for the sidebar code as the changes to the 
   sidebar were not made in sidebar.php and any changes I make to this file do not
   affect sidebar.php
 * does anyone know if there is a different file being accessed which I can edit?
 * Ultimately I want to manually add some code to the sidebar.
 * Thanks in advance to any help!

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 *  [chaoskaizer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chaoskaizer/)
 * (@chaoskaizer)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-sidebarphp-after-adding-widgets/#post-903160)
 * you’ll need to register the sidebar in functions.php. Read the doc [http://automattic.com/code/widgets/themes/](http://automattic.com/code/widgets/themes/)

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