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Override dynamic sidebar widget defaults in Wordpress

I have been trying to freshen up and clean my design a bit, and wanted to slim down all the references to “widget” in the CSS class definitions in the dynamic sidebar. I found an excellent article on opensourcemaven detailing how to do this.

Basically you override the function call in the dynamic sidebar that registers your sidebars, and modify the default values. so that you keep modifications within your own theme directory so as not to mess with the default code.

Example code:

<?php
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
 register_sidebars(2,array(
   // Removes <li> with class declaration
   'before_widget' => '<li>',
   // Removes </li> with class declaration
   'after_widget' => '</li>',
   // Replaces <h2> with class declaration
   'before_title' => '<h3>',
   // Replaces </h2> with class declaration
   'after_title' => '</h3>',
    ));
?>

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