Fatal Error: Twenty_Fourteen_Ephemera_Widget redeclared

TwentyFourteen Version 1.4

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare class Twenty_Fourteen_Ephemera_Widget in …/themes/twentyfourteen/inc/widgets.php on line 269

Actually the underlying problem lies in TwentyFourteen’s functions.php code. The registration for Twenty_Fourteen_Ephemera_Widget is done incorrectly in twentyfourteen_widget_init(). I ran across the problem when I was adding widgets to my child theme.

To correct the problem remove the following line from twentyfourteen_widget_init()
register_widget( 'Twenty_Fourteen_Ephemera_Widget' );
and move the require .. widgets.php above the function. Rename the function twentyfourteen_widget_init to twentyfourteen_sidebar_init. Do not forget to rename it in
add_action( 'widgets_init', 'twentyfourteen_widget_init' );

In widgets.php paste the following at the bottom of the file:

function twentyfourteen_widgets_init() {
	register_widget( 'Twenty_Fourteen_Ephemera_Widget' );
	do_action('widgets_init');
}
// call widget initialization
add_action('init', 'twentyfourteen_widgets_init');

To summarize, the function containing register_sidebar is queued using add_action (‘widgets_init’.
However the function containing register_widget must perform do_action(‘widget_init’) after all widgets have been registered. This function is then queued using add_action (‘init’

A quick look at WordPress’ default-widgets.php will show the correct way to initialize widgets.

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