Do you want to disable or remove unused widgets in from your WordPress site? Just copy and paste the following given code into inside your theme folder’s functions.php file and save it.
// unregister all widgets
function unregister_default_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_Media_Gallery’);
unregister_widget(‘WP_Widget_Media_Audio’);
unregister_widget(‘WP_Widget_Media_Video’);
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_Nav_Menu_Widget’);
unregister_widget(‘Twenty_Eleven_Ephemera_Widget’);
}
add_action(‘widgets_init’, ‘unregister_default_widgets’, 11);
function unregister_default_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_Media_Gallery’);
unregister_widget(‘WP_Widget_Media_Audio’);
unregister_widget(‘WP_Widget_Media_Video’);
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_Nav_Menu_Widget’);
unregister_widget(‘Twenty_Eleven_Ephemera_Widget’);
}
add_action(‘widgets_init’, ‘unregister_default_widgets’, 11);
Here above you can customize or remove any line code per your needs.
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