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Add New Widget ​

Elementor Core Intermediate

Elementor offers many built-in widgets out of the box, but it also allows external developers to register new widgets.

Hooks ​

To do that we simply hook to the elementor/widgets/register action which provides access to the widgets manager as a parameter. Developers can use the manager to add new widgets using the register() method with the widget instance.

Registering Widgets ​

To register new widgets use the following code:

php
function register_new_widgets( $widgets_manager ) {

	require_once( __DIR__ . '/widgets/widget-1.php' );
	require_once( __DIR__ . '/widgets/widget-2.php' );

	$widgets_manager->register( new \Elementor_Widget_1() );
	$widgets_manager->register( new \Elementor_Widget_2() );

}
add_action( 'elementor/widgets/register', 'register_new_widgets' );

The manager registers new widgets by accepting widget instances. For more information about the widget class, read about the widget class structure.