Title: Multiple widget pages in theme admin?
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Multiple widget pages in theme admin?

 *  [andymacleod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andymacleod/)
 * (@andymacleod)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-widget-pages-in-theme-admin/)
 * On the theme that I am creating I want to have different widgets on content pages
   and post pages… I want a large number of widget areas on each template…
 * I _could_ just register lots of widget areas to appear on the main Widget page,
   but a neater solution would be to have separate Widget option pages for each 
   template…
 * Is it possible to create multiple Widget theme option pages?
 * Thanks,
 * Andy

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 *  [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/)
 * (@chipbennett)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-widget-pages-in-theme-admin/#post-2353630)
 * > Is it possible to create multiple Widget theme option pages?
 * No; Widgets are configured via `Dashboard -> Appearance -> Widgets`.
 * Technically speaking, almost _everything_ can be modified in WordPress; however,
   spreading out Widget management over several pages would be terrible UX. Users
   expect Widget configuration to be found at `Dashboard -> Appearance -> Widgets`.
 * Your options:
 * 1) Create multiple, contextual Widgetized sidebars
    2) Use the Widget Logic Plugin(
   or similar) to allow conditional application of Widgets within your defined Widgetized
   sidebars.
 *  Thread Starter [andymacleod](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andymacleod/)
 * (@andymacleod)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-widget-pages-in-theme-admin/#post-2353641)
 * Thanks for the reply… 🙂
 * > spreading out Widget management over several pages would be terrible UX
 * I definitely disagree with that one!
 * I would argue that having a few widget menu pages is much preferable to having(
   for example) the following widget areas on one page:
 * Front page widget area 1 (This is not what they would be named, of course)…
    
   Front page widget area 2 Front page widget area 3 Front page widget area 4 Front
   page widget area 5 Front page widget area 6 Front page widget area 7 Post page
   widget area 1 Post page widget area 2 Post page widget area 3 Post page widget
   area 4 Post page widget area 5 Post page widget area 6 Post page widget area 
   7 Content page widget area 1 Content page widget area 2 Content page widget area
   3 Content page widget area 4 Content page widget area 5 Content page widget area
   6 Content page widget area 7
 * Trying to drag widgets into the widget areas becomes impossible… That is definitely
   not good UX.
 * (And yes, in case you were wondering, I have very good reasons for wanting such
   a large number of widgets in my theme).

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-widget-pages-in-theme-admin/#post-2353641)
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