unregister_widget() WP 1.0

Unregisters a widget.

Unregisters a WP_Widget widget. Useful for un-registering default widgets. Run within a function hooked to the 'widgets_init' action.

No Hooks.

null. Nothing.

unregister_widget( $widget );

$widget(string|WP_Widget) (required): Either the name of a WP_Widget subclass or an instance of a WP_Widget subclass.

Since 2.8.0	Introduced.
Since 4.6.0	Updated the `$widget` parameter to also accept a WP_Widget instance object instead of simply a `WP_Widget` subclass name.

<?php
function unregister_widget( $widget ) {
	global $wp_widget_factory;

	$wp_widget_factory->unregister( $widget );
}