Title: sidebars_widgets
Published: April 25, 2014
Last modified: April 28, 2025

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# apply_filters( ‘sidebars_widgets’, array $sidebars_widgets )

## In this article

 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/sidebars_widgets/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/sidebars_widgets/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/sidebars_widgets/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/sidebars_widgets/?output_format=md#changelog)
 * [User Contributed Notes](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/sidebars_widgets/?output_format=md#user-contributed-notes)

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Filters the list of sidebars and their widgets.

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

 `$sidebars_widgets`array

An associative array of sidebars and their widgets.

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

    ```php
    return apply_filters( 'sidebars_widgets', $sidebars_widgets );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/widgets.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/widgets.php#L1051)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/widgets.php#L1051-L1051)

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

| Used by | Description | 
| [wp_get_sidebars_widgets()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_get_sidebars_widgets/)`wp-includes/widgets.php` |

Retrieves the full list of sidebars and their widget instance IDs.

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

| Version | Description | 
| [2.7.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/2.7.0/) | Introduced. |

## 󠀁[User Contributed Notes](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/sidebars_widgets/?output_format=md#user-contributed-notes)󠁿

 1.  [Skip to note 2 content](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/sidebars_widgets/?output_format=md#comment-content-6096)
 2.   [Jose Lazo](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jose-lazo/)  [  4 years ago  ](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/sidebars_widgets/#comment-6096)
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 4. Hide Widgets on Specific WordPress Pages
 5.     ```php
        add_filter( 'sidebars_widgets', 'wpdocs_remove_about_me_widget' );
        function wpdocs_remove_about_me_widget( $sidebars_widgets ) {
            if ( is_admin() ) { 
                return $sidebars_widgets; 
            }
    
            if ( is_page( 'about' ) || is_home() ) {
                $key = array_search( 'text-3', $sidebars_widgets['primary-sidebar'] );
    
                if ( false !== $key ) {
                    unset( $sidebars_widgets['primary-sidebar'][ $key ] );
                }
            }
    
            return $sidebars_widgets;
        }
        ```
    
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