Export a widget from a page to another comprises a fairly simple procedure to use, especially if we are going to do it from the WordPress platform. Web page editors often use widget export to test them on a page before using them.
There are users who have two or more WordPress web pages and copy certain functionalities from one to send to the other. This is easy to do for widgets, since you only need the execution of a WordPress plugin and the previously activated widgets.
The Widgets are as versatile as programming code, that make it possible to include HTML, CSS y JavaScript, when a custom group already exists and you must submit your installation, or save the codes of each widget in a text file.
The plug Importer and exporter of widgets it is a powerful tool that you can use to facilitate this work, you just have to download it, install it and activate it like any plugin in WordPress and then go to Tools> Importer and exporter of widgets, and there you will find the widgets import and export tool.
If you pretend export a widget from a page to another through WordPress, you have to have some prior considerations to execute this action.
Is something obvious, but maybe it needs to be said, that you first have to have or create a website with WordPress, plus an additional one where you are going to pass the activated widgets to the other.
The procedure of exporting or copying a widget is very easy and with the knowledge of the different options what does WordPress bring, Surely you will apply it step by step in the shortest possible time.
To that end, start by looking for a plugin that will allow you to export your page widgets. But before that, you will go to Warning and click the 'Widgets option’ to verify that the widgets are enabled.
After that, When looking for the add-on you must go to the right side of the screen and click on add-ons; In the new expanded window, will type the name of the plugin in the search bar: 'Importer and exporter of widgets'.
You are going to click on the option to install it and you will see that on the right side of the screen, when you go to Tools, the option of 'Importer and exporter of widgets'. We suggest you do this from the installation of WordPress in Spanish, so there are no translation problems at any time.
To successfully clone a widget on our websites, we can make use of another plugin called Oomph Clone WidgetsYou must install and activate it like any other plugin in wordpress, now when you have it active you will see on the left side of each active widget on your site a small cross, that if you stand on top you will see a text box that says: “Clone this Widget”, once this is done, You only have to select on which page of your website you want the “Clone” of your original widget and if you wish, you can customize it later since each of the duplicates will work independently of the other.
Once the plugin is activated, we will only proceed to export or copy the widgets. For this, we are going to click on the newly appeared option in Tools (Importer and exporter of widgets) and later we will click on Export widgets.
A pop-up window will appear, where we will be asked where on the device we want to save said copy the export, to what we will mark in 'Downloads’ and we will click accept.
Then we will go to the other page, where we must also install the mentioned plugin, and once installed, it is crucial that it is activated. How this plugin is activated on the other page, let's click on the plugin (inside Tools) to display the Browse button.
Then we will take the generated file in downloads and click the Import widgets option. We can immediately see that the widgets have been imported.
Now with these imported widgets we will be able to use the functions of the exporter page, but now from inside this other page. An example of these simple functions can be the insertion of a slider in WordPress, among others.
With imported widgets, the same functions that were used in the export page can be applied; WordPress has this ability to facilitate these changes in the best way. Therefore, if you manage your page from a platform like Blogger, we suggest you migrate to WordPress, to have more facilities of this type.
Among all the functions you can do with the widgets en WordPress highlights the ability to add multiple file formats, as text files, images and videos; at the same time adding menus and any type of feasible link.
Con widgets, imported or not, you can simply apply all means to insert content in WordPress format.
From writing posts to blogs and pages, to the different tools that are part of the interface of the page or entry in WordPress, can be done using widgets. For this reason, you should use them where needed.
