Title: Looking for… Widget boxes
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Looking for… Widget boxes

 *  [Snowy_River](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snowy_river/)
 * (@snowy_river)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/looking-for-widget-boxes/)
 * Okay, I don’t know if what I want is possible, exists as a plugin, requires direct
   coding, or is simply impossible. I want to be able to create boxes around certain
   groups of widgets in the sidebar. I’d like to have the box have a title, and 
   then some sort of visual distinction, whether it is an actual box, or a shaded
   area, around a set of widgets.
 * Right now, I’ve used the Text widget to create a title for the next few widgets
   below, but this isn’t ideal, as the Text widget’s text is the same size as the
   text for the titles of the widgets that follow, so it’s not clear that it’s a
   title for the entire group. Also, it’s hard to make it clear where the group 
   ends and a new group begins.
 * Well, I hope that all makes sense. I’ve kept looking for a plugin that could 
   actually do what I want, but I haven’t been able to find anything.
 * (My site is currently in development, so it’s not publicly accessible, or I’d
   post a link. If this issue isn’t solved by the time my site goes live, I’ll post
   a link then.)

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/looking-for-widget-boxes/#post-3279766)
 * this seems to be related:
    [http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/16782/widgets-with-groups-sub-widgets-widget-in-a-widget](http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/16782/widgets-with-groups-sub-widgets-widget-in-a-widget)
 *  [ceekay0](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ceekay0/)
 * (@ceekay0)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/looking-for-widget-boxes/#post-3279768)
 * Besides changing the code in the theme directly, it should be possible to use
   the “text” widget type.
    You would place one before the group of widgets, and
   one after. Just open a div and give it a class or id (depending on your need),
   so that you can style it via the css. That would even allow you to use the normal
   widget title function.
 * Before-Widget: `<div class="mysuperwidget">`
    After Widget: `</div>`
 * Haven’t tested that, but can’t think of a reason why it shoudln’t work.
 *  Thread Starter [Snowy_River](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snowy_river/)
 * (@snowy_river)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/looking-for-widget-boxes/#post-3279800)
 * The use of TEXT widgets to introduce a DIV section around the desired widget 
   group was a nice idea, but it doesn’t seem to work, at least with the theme that
   I’m using at this point. Wll, I’ll keep trying…
 * Thanks for the input!

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

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 * Last reply from: [Snowy_River](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snowy_river/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/looking-for-widget-boxes/#post-3279800)
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