HEELPBOOK - WordPress – Deactivate Default Widgets ##################

You do not always want to have all the widgets active, which comes within the WordPress core.

You can disable the unneccessary Widgets in your functions.php of your theme with a small function. The following syntax will switch off all the standard widgets. It should therefore be adjusted depending on your requirements:



// unregister all default WP Widgets
function unregister_default_wp_widgets() {
	unregister_widget('WP_Widget_Pages');
	unregister_widget('WP_Widget_Calendar');
	unregister_widget('WP_Widget_Archives');
	unregister_widget('WP_Widget_Links');
	unregister_widget('WP_Widget_Meta');
	unregister_widget('WP_Widget_Search');
	unregister_widget('WP_Widget_Text');
	unregister_widget('WP_Widget_Categories');
	unregister_widget('WP_Widget_Recent_Posts');
	unregister_widget('WP_Widget_Recent_Comments');
	unregister_widget('WP_Widget_RSS');
	unregister_widget('WP_Widget_Tag_Cloud');
}
add_action('widgets_init', 'unregister_default_wp_widgets', 1);



The function unregister_widget() needs as parameters the class, therefore the code is working since version 2.8 only. In prior versions, Widgets were supported differently.

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Article Month: April
Article Date: 02/04/2012
Permalink: http://heelpbook.altervista.org/2012/wordpress-deactivate-default-widgets/
Source: http://wpengineer.com/1650/deactivate-wordpress-default-widgets/
Language: English

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