Title: Widget management
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Widget management

 *  [DavyB](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davyb/)
 * (@davyb)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-management/)
 * When you switch themes all your layout of widgets gets thrown back into the Inactive
   widgets area for widgets can have multiple invocations and the Available widgets
   area for those that can only be invoked once.
 * This is particularly annoying if you have multiple widgetised areas (asides –
   once known as sidebars) i.e. 13 widgetised areas as in the Thematic framework
   and are only switching from one child theme to another or to the parent (framework)
   theme and you know the new theme can handle the existing widgets layout.
 * Does anyone know of a plugin that can take a snapshot of you widgets in use and
   make it easy to restore the widgetised areas to what you had.
    Searching the 
   plugins repository with sensible tags or keywords leads to a sort the wheat from
   the chaff situation, plenty of results, but few if any useful results. TIA

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

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-management/)
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