Title: Help using the widget function
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Help using the widget function

 *  [polyfade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/polyfade/)
 * (@polyfade)
 * [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-using-the-widget-function/)
 * After searching on how to use this widget as a function inside a template, the
   proper widget name appears to be called, “Sidebar_Login_Widget”
 * Thus, it needs to be called like this:
    `<?php the_widget('Sidebar_Login_Widget');?
   >`
 * This outputs the “Hello” user name and user’s avatar. But how do I also include
   a logout link, for example?
 * Yes, I could drop this widget inside its own sidebar, then call the sidebar into
   my template. But, the whole idea is wanting to avoid creating a new sidebar.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/sidebar-login/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/sidebar-login/)

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## Tags

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

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 * Last reply from: [polyfade](https://wordpress.org/support/users/polyfade/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-using-the-widget-function/)
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