Title: Widget ID function
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Widget ID function

 *  Resolved [Pete](https://wordpress.org/support/users/perthmetro/)
 * (@perthmetro)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-id-function/)
 * Can you consider adding this function in so we can easily identify what our widget
   ID is…
 *     ```
       add_action('in_widget_form', 'spice_get_widget_id');
       function spice_get_widget_id($widget_instance)
       {
           if ($widget_instance->number=="__i__"){
            echo "<p><strong>Widget ID is</strong>: Pls save the widget first!</p>"   ;
         }  else {
              echo "<p><strong>Widget ID is: </strong>" .$widget_instance->id. "</p>";
           }
       }
       ```
   
 * thanks to [https://wordpress.org/plugins/get-widget-id/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/get-widget-id/)
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/amr-shortcode-any-widget/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/amr-shortcode-any-widget/)

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 *  Plugin Author [anmari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anmari/)
 * (@anmari)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-id-function/#post-6978906)
 * sure – that’s better than the ‘debug method !
    It’ll be in the next update.

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

 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [anmari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anmari/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-id-function/#post-6978906)
 * Status: resolved