Passing Widget Content to WordPress Variable

by Nikolaenko Maxim · Published October 15, 2016 · Updated August 7, 2018

When developing plugins, it is sometimes necessary to output data from a widget to a variable. For example, this situation can be useful, if you want to display the widget inside the text or process the data from the widget before displaying it on the screen.

I used this piece of code to get data from widget into variable inside function.php file

Recently I came across such a solution and decided to share it with you.

ob_start();
	dynamic_sidebar('sidebar-ads-in-post');
	$sidebar = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

ob_start();

dynamic_sidebar('sidebar-ads-in-post');

$sidebar = ob_get_contents();

ob_end_clean();

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