Class ‘WP_Widget’ not found

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I am learning WordPress development with a tutorial where we learn to create a widget,
it is asked to create a file named newsletterwidget.php with the following code, but it does not say in which folder to put it:

class Zero_Newsletter_Widget extends WP_Widget
{
    public function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct('zero_newsletter', 'Newsletter', array('description' => 'Un formulaire d\'inscription à la newsletter.'));
    }
    public function widget($args, $instance)
    {
        echo 'widget newsletter';
    }
}

So, as WP_Widget class is created in wp-includes\class-wp-widget.php, I decided to put newsletterwidget.php in wp-includes but I get the following error:

Fatal error: Class ‘WP_Widget’ not found in C:\xampp\htdocs\wordpress\wp-includes\newsletterwidget.php on line 5

Thank you

1 Answer
1

You should never work on core files which are inside wp-admin and wp-includes folder.

You’ll be just working on wp-content folder.

If you’re developing a plugin, you can directly put the code in your main plugin file or you can put the file inside of your plugin folder and include that file in the plugins main file.

Or if you’re working with a theme, you can put the code directly in functions.php or create the php file inside your theme folder and include that file in functions.php

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