Title: keeping widget area content when changing theme
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# keeping widget area content when changing theme

 *  [mic10](https://wordpress.org/support/users/micam1/)
 * (@micam1)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keeping-widget-area-content-when-changing-theme/)
 * I have a site with different themes, but they all use the same base theme, I 
   don’t have a functions.php in any child theme, instead I have all functions in
   a mu-plugin so all child themes share the same functions, so they all have the
   same widget areas etc.
 * The only problem I have is, if a user changes the theme the widgets will not 
   stay in the widget areas, they move to the inactivate widgets.
 * As all my child themes share the same functions, does anyone know if it is possible
   to keep the widgets in the widget areas when a theme is changed?
 * Thanks in advance.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/keeping-widget-area-content-when-changing-theme/)
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