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I occasionally will place a widget manually inside a template for a custom position. Problem is if that widget gets deleted/renamed it can cause the page not to load and throw a server error.

Is there a conditional to check if a widget exists based on the name?

Code:

<xf:if is="$widget.key.custom_widget_name">
<xf:widget key="custom_widget_name">
</xf:if>

Maybe custom widget positions would be the path to go...

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