Title: Widgets not secured?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Widgets not secured?

 *  [Brian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bwold/)
 * (@bwold)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-not-secured/)
 * All of the site’s widgets should only be visible to logged-in members. However,
   if you secure a page by setting access restrictions, the widgets still display.
 * Am I missing something? How does one restrict widget access?
 * I suppose I could create a child theme, then hack the sidebar.php file to wrap
   the entire thing in your require membership function. Better yet would be to 
   add an admin function to set restrictions per widget, like that of pages and 
   posts.
 * Suggestions?
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 *  [Jessica Oros](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jessica-o/)
 * (@jessica-o)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-not-secured/#post-4787547)
 * Hey Brian,
 * You’re correct – the easiest (and most configurable) way to do this would be 
   to create a custom sidebar.php file like sidebar-members.php, then you can load
   this sidebar with `get_sidebar('members')` ([http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_Your_Sidebar](http://codex.wordpress.org/Customizing_Your_Sidebar))
   in your template files. Additionally, you could remove an entire sidebar by conditionally
   unregistering a sidebar if a user does not have membership with `unregister_sidebar()`(
   [https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/unregister_sidebar](https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/unregister_sidebar))
 * Hope that helps!
 * Thanks,
    Jess

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-not-secured/#post-4787547)
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