Title: Widgets: Setting $instance variables in widget()
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Widgets: Setting $instance variables in widget()

 *  [Mads Phikamphon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madsphi/)
 * (@madsphi)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-setting-instance-variables-in-widget-1/)
 * Hi,
 * I have a widget where I need to set the value of an instance variable in the 
   widget() function.
 * Is that possible? If it is, how should I do it?
 * I have no problems setting the value in update(), but my code doesn’t work when
   I try to put it in widget()
 * The code is simple:
    $instance[‘title’] = ‘My title’;
 * Thanks a lot,
    Mads

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widgets-setting-instance-variables-in-widget-1/)
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