Title: Prevent Default Widgets Loading on Activation
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Prevent Default Widgets Loading on Activation

 *  [GPixels](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gpixels/)
 * (@gpixels)
 * [14 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/prevent-default-widgets-loading-on-activation/)
 * Normally when designing new themes, I’ve always put my own default loading widget(
   s) in my theme. However, with my latest theme, I didn’t do this but see WordPress
   still loads its default list of widgets in the sidebar.
 * I know you can deregister widgets but this is not what I want to do…I would like
   to find a method via functions.php to prevent WordPress from loading its own 
   default widgets when my theme is activated on a new clean install. I would like
   the user to have a blank sidebar to start without having to do anything. Is there
   a snippet of code to do this?
    Thanks in advance!

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