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

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# do_action( ‘wp_unregister_sidebar_widget’, int|string $id )

## In this article

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

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

Fires just before a widget is removed from a sidebar.

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

 `$id`int|string

The widget ID.

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

    ```php
    do_action( 'wp_unregister_sidebar_widget', $id );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/widgets.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.0/src/wp-includes/widgets.php#L504)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.0/src/wp-includes/widgets.php#L504-L504)

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

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

Remove widget from sidebar.

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

| Version | Description | 
| [3.0.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/3.0.0/) | Introduced. |

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