Title: WP_Customize_Widgets::get_widget_control_parts
Published: December 9, 2015
Last modified: May 20, 2026

---

# WP_Customize_Widgets::get_widget_control_parts( array $args ): array

## In this article

 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_customize_widgets/get_widget_control_parts/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Return](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_customize_widgets/get_widget_control_parts/?output_format=md#return)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_customize_widgets/get_widget_control_parts/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_customize_widgets/get_widget_control_parts/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_customize_widgets/get_widget_control_parts/?output_format=md#changelog)

[ Back to top](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_customize_widgets/get_widget_control_parts/?output_format=md#wp--skip-link--target)

Retrieves the widget control markup parts.

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_customize_widgets/get_widget_control_parts/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$args`arrayrequired

Widget control arguments.

## 󠀁[Return](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_customize_widgets/get_widget_control_parts/?output_format=md#return)󠁿

 array

 * `control` string
 * Markup for widget control wrapping form.
 * `content` string
 * The contents of the widget form itself.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_customize_widgets/get_widget_control_parts/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    public function get_widget_control_parts( $args ) {
    	$args[0]['before_widget_content'] = '<div class="widget-content">';
    	$args[0]['after_widget_content']  = '</div><!-- .widget-content -->';
    	$control_markup                   = $this->get_widget_control( $args );

    	$content_start_pos = strpos( $control_markup, $args[0]['before_widget_content'] );
    	$content_end_pos   = strrpos( $control_markup, $args[0]['after_widget_content'] );

    	$control  = substr( $control_markup, 0, $content_start_pos + strlen( $args[0]['before_widget_content'] ) );
    	$control .= substr( $control_markup, $content_end_pos );
    	$content  = trim(
    		substr(
    			$control_markup,
    			$content_start_pos + strlen( $args[0]['before_widget_content'] ),
    			$content_end_pos - $content_start_pos - strlen( $args[0]['before_widget_content'] )
    		)
    	);

    	return compact( 'control', 'content' );
    }
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/class-wp-customize-widgets.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.0/src/wp-includes/class-wp-customize-widgets.php#L1188)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.0/src/wp-includes/class-wp-customize-widgets.php#L1188-L1207)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_customize_widgets/get_widget_control_parts/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Uses | Description | 
| [WP_Customize_Widgets::get_widget_control()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_customize_widgets/get_widget_control/)`wp-includes/class-wp-customize-widgets.php` |

Retrieves the widget control markup.

  |

## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_customize_widgets/get_widget_control_parts/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [4.4.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/4.4.0/) | Introduced. |

## User Contributed Notes

You must [log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.wordpress.org%2Freference%2Fclasses%2Fwp_customize_widgets%2Fget_widget_control_parts%2F)
before being able to contribute a note or feedback.