Title: load widget via php?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# load widget via php?

 *  [prologuemedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prologuemedia/)
 * (@prologuemedia)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/load-widget-via-php/)
 * Is it possible to load a widget via a php call? I have templates that I want 
   to add a widget to the sidebar and it would be ideal if I could do it in the 
   code and not in the admin.
 * -gl

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 *  Thread Starter [prologuemedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prologuemedia/)
 * (@prologuemedia)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/load-widget-via-php/#post-736530)
 * Anyone? Bueller?
 * -gl
 *  [husar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/husar/)
 * (@husar)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/load-widget-via-php/#post-736544)
 * Anyone? Bueller? Anyone? Bueller?
 * Sounds like a strange request. But how about not using widgets. Then you could
   control your sidebar from PHP if you so wished.
 *  Thread Starter [prologuemedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/prologuemedia/)
 * (@prologuemedia)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/load-widget-via-php/#post-736549)
 * Well, good point and that IS what I do right now but, I have a shopping cart 
   widget I wanted to use and there seems to be no other way to include it.
 * -gl

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

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