Title: widgets
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# widgets

 *  [organicg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/organicg/)
 * (@organicg)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-5/)
 * I had a widget problem and
    a new developer come in after my original one. The
   error you were getting on widgets.php was: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare register_sidebars()
   in /home/organicg/public_html/wp-content/plugins/widgets.php on line 16. The 
   next developer, just came in and wrapped all the widget functions with if (!function_exists(
   _function name_)) { … } The widget availabilty seems to have disappeared from
   the presentation area. Can anyone help as to how I get it back? thank you!

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-5/#post-647368)
 * You blog is at 2.2.3 so there should be no widget.php file in the wp-content/
   plugins folder. Widgets are part of the native WordPress ability and the file
   widgets.php is in wp-includes.
 * If you are using the Sidebar Widget plugin, it should be deactivated and all 
   the related files to that plugin should be deleted.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-5/#post-647368)
 * Status: not resolved

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