{"id":74403,"date":"2024-05-31T06:48:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T06:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/?p=74403"},"modified":"2024-05-31T07:15:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T07:15:39","slug":"wordpress-widgets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.awardspace.com\/kb\/wordpress-widgets\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Widgets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we&#8217;ve covered before, to understand <a href=\"\/wordpress-tutorials\/what-is-widget-in-wordpress\/\">what a WordPress widget<\/a> is, you shouldn&#8217;t look further than your phone. Currently, almost all phones have some predefined widgets on the main screen. For example, the clock, or the weather widget. On your phone, the widgets are (relatively) small pieces of code that add a specific functionality.<\/p>\n<p>In WordPress, we also use widgets. They are small pieces of code, with a predefined function. 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