Title: Widgets don’t work
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Widgets don’t work

 *  [samiotis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samiotis/)
 * (@samiotis)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-dont-work/)
 * I’ve posted this before but my topic is closed so i will never get an answer.
   If i did something wrong please let me know.
 * My sidebar looks like this after making the modifications recommended. Widgets
   still don’t work though. Do i still have to add additional code to function.php?
   If so; would someone please explain what and where exactly the modifications 
   have to be made to make a theme widget aware?
 * Please some help….
 * I did try this: [http://automattic.com/code/widgets/themes/](http://automattic.com/code/widgets/themes/)
   but with no satisfying result.
 *     ```
       </div>
       <div id="sidebar">
       <ul>
       <?php
       if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
           register_sidebar();
       ?>
       <ul>
       <?php wp_list_categories('title_li=<h2>Categories</h2>'); ?>
       </ul>
   
       <ul>
       <li><h2>Archives</h2>
       	<ul>
       		<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&limit=6'); ?>
       	</ul></li>
       </ul>
       <ul>
       <li><h2>Meta</h2>
       	<ul>
       		<?php wp_register(); ?>
       		<li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li>
       		<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/" title="Powered by WordPress.">WordPress</a></li>
       		<?php wp_meta(); ?>
       	</ul></li>
       </ul>
       <?php endif; ?>
       </ul>
       </div>
       ```
   
 * Thanks a lot for helping.

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 *  [MacEwan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/editormule/)
 * (@editormule)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-dont-work/#post-750058)
 * Ditto. Would someone please tell me why my widget page has this:
    Fatal error:
   Cannot redeclare register_sidebars() (previously declared in /home/content/d/
   e/a/deadmule54/html/wp-includes/widgets.php:13) in /home/content/d/e/a/deadmule54/
   html/wp-content/plugins/widgets.php on line 22
 * It’s been that way since before 2.5.1 upgrade.
 * Thanks for any and all help on this.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 1 reply
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [MacEwan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/editormule/)
 * Last activity: [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-dont-work/#post-750058)
 * Status: not resolved

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