Title: wp_ajax_dashboard_widgets
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: May 20, 2026

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# wp_ajax_dashboard_widgets()

## In this article

 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_ajax_dashboard_widgets/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_ajax_dashboard_widgets/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_ajax_dashboard_widgets/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Handles dashboard widgets via AJAX.

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

    ```php
    function wp_ajax_dashboard_widgets() {
    	require_once ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php';

    	$pagenow = $_GET['pagenow'];
    	if ( 'dashboard-user' === $pagenow || 'dashboard-network' === $pagenow || 'dashboard' === $pagenow ) {
    		set_current_screen( $pagenow );
    	}

    	switch ( $_GET['widget'] ) {
    		case 'dashboard_primary':
    			wp_dashboard_primary();
    			break;
    	}
    	wp_die();
    }
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.0/src/wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php#L420)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.0/src/wp-admin/includes/ajax-actions.php#L420-L434)

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

| Uses | Description | 
| [set_current_screen()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/set_current_screen/)`wp-admin/includes/screen.php` |

Set the current screen object

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| [wp_dashboard_primary()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_dashboard_primary/)`wp-admin/includes/dashboard.php` |

‘WordPress Events and News’ dashboard widget.

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| [wp_die()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_die/)`wp-includes/functions.php` |

Kills WordPress execution and displays HTML page with an error message.

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

| Version | Description | 
| [3.4.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/3.4.0/) | Introduced. |

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