what is the difference between widget and plugin in wordpress?

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about uses and functionality

Siyaul Rahuman Abdul Rahuman · Answer

do not know and i don't have ideas about them

Shareef Shareef · Answer

A widget is a self-coded little bugger that you can drop into a widget area of your theme that will add some specific functionality or feature to it.

A plugin works more in the back end and with the actual WordPress software. It adds extended functionality to the WordPress.

Ashraf Marrah · Answer

Widgets can come from plugins as well as just be embed into posts. A plugin can be anything