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Replace Widget Title with Custom Title and HTML

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WordPress widgets pick up the title that you define in the widgets section. You can replace widget title with custom title and HTML.

Instructions: Add the following code to the functions.php file of your WordPress theme.
You need to replace the text in the code below for a custom widget title.

add_filter('widget_title', 'change_widget_title', 10, 3);
function change_widget_title($title, $instance, $wid){       
    return $title = str_replace('Widget Title', '<span style="color: red">Custom</span>', $title);
}

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  1. How I can change the H for the widget title? I have my titles at H5 and I want to have it at H3

    1. This is likely dependent on the theme. You may want to create a child theme.

  2. Greetings Kevin…is it possible to configure this to rename multiple instances of a widget that all have the same core name…using numerous ‘links’ widgets for categorization…WP 3.2.1…?

  3. Doesn’t work for me.

    1. what is your version of wordpress? are you getting an error if so what is the error you get?

      1. Doesn’t work for me either it is just showing the txt as test in the front end:

        1. PHP code can’t be added to Custom HTML widget. You may want to check out this guide on how to add PHP using a plugin: https://www.isitwp.com/properly-add-code-snippets-wordpress-site/

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