Title: Problem editing widgets.php
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Problem editing widgets.php

 *  Resolved [bryan868](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bryan868/)
 * (@bryan868)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-editing-widgetsphp/)
 * I’m editing the “Standard Widgets” section of widgets.php, trying to duplicate
   this piece of code:
 * `<?php
    } function widget_recent_entries($args) { extract($args); $title = __('
   Recent Posts', 'widgets'); $r = new WP_Query('showposts=10'); if ($r->have_posts()):?
   > <?php echo $before_widget; ?> <?php echo $before_title . $title . $after_title;?
   > <ul> <?php while ($r->have_posts()) : $r->the_post(); ?> <li><a href="<?php
   the_permalink() ?>"><?php if ( get_the_title() ) the_title(); else the_ID(); ?
   > </a></li> <?php endwhile; ?> </ul> <?php echo $after_widget; ?>
 * This is the recent posts widget, I’m trying to duplicate it. However when I copy
   this and then paste another one below it, I get a parse error. Any idea why?

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 *  Thread Starter [bryan868](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bryan868/)
 * (@bryan868)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-editing-widgetsphp/#post-516509)
 * Nevermind, I figured it out! Please delete!

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