---
title: "How to activate or inactivate Whatfix widgets?"
slug: "how-to-activate-or-inactivate-whatfix-widgets-1"
tags: ["Activate", "Move content to Draft", "disable", "Remove", "Disable Content", "Deactivate", "Disable widgets", "Inactivate", "Remove from Production"]
updated: 2025-01-21T08:35:46Z
published: 2025-01-21T08:35:46Z
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://support.whatfix.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# How to activate or inactivate Whatfix widgets?

Activating widgets like Pop-up, Self Help, and more, publishes them to the application, while deactivating them removes them from the application. On the Whatfix Guidance dashboard, you can activate widgets by pushing them from the **Ready** stage to the **Production** stage and inactivate widgets by removing them from the **Production** stage.

Use the following steps to activate or inactivate widgets:

  Activate widgets 

Use the following steps to activate widgets:

1. On the Whatfix Guidance dashboard, click **Widgets**. ![ia_left_nav_widgets](https://cdn.document360.io/a268766e-d74d-4619-9613-e2472f809ffb/Images/Documentation/ia_left_nav_widgets.png)
2. Click **All widgets**. ![ia_dashboard_left_nave_allwidgets](https://cdn.document360.io/a268766e-d74d-4619-9613-e2472f809ffb/Images/Documentation/ia_dashboard_left_nave_allwidgets.png)

1. Select the widget you want to activate. ![ia_select_widgets](https://cdn.document360.io/a268766e-d74d-4619-9613-e2472f809ffb/Images/Documentation/ia_select_widgets.png)
2. Click **Send to ready.** ![clm_db_send_to_ready](https://cdn.document360.io/a268766e-d74d-4619-9613-e2472f809ffb/Images/Documentation/clm_db_send_to_ready.jpg)

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- Preview and edit your widgets in the **Ready** and **Draft** stages. For more information, see [Understand Whatfix dashboard stages.](/studio/docs/understanding-whatfix-stages)

1. Go to the **Ready** stage, and then click **Push all to production** to activate all the widgets.  

![DB_CLM_ReadyStage_PushAlltoprod1](https://cdn.document360.io/a268766e-d74d-4619-9613-e2472f809ffb/Images/Documentation/DB_CLM_ReadyStage_PushAlltoprod%281%29.png)

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Whatfix enables you to push selective widgets to Production by selecting the respective widgets using the checkbox and then clicking **Push to production**. ![clm_db_push_to_production](https://cdn.document360.io/a268766e-d74d-4619-9613-e2472f809ffb/Images/Documentation/clm_db_push_to_production.png)

  Inactivate widgets 

Inactivate widgets by removing them from the **Production** stage.

1. On the Whatfix Guidance dashboard, click **Widgets**. ![ia_left_nav_widgets](https://cdn.document360.io/a268766e-d74d-4619-9613-e2472f809ffb/Images/Documentation/ia_left_nav_widgets.png)
2. Click **All widgets**. ![ia_dashboard_left_nave_allwidgets](https://cdn.document360.io/a268766e-d74d-4619-9613-e2472f809ffb/Images/Documentation/ia_dashboard_left_nave_allwidgets.png)

1. Go to the Production stage and select the widget you want to remove from Production.
2. Click **Remove from production**.

   
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The widget gets inactivated and is moved back to the **Draft** stage.

## Related

- [Understand widget behavior with the new Visibility Rules](/understand-content-behavior-based-on-advanced-visibility-rules.md)
- [Export content and widgets data on the Dashboard](/export-contentwidgets-list-data.md)
- [Cannot view the Widget section on Whatfix Dashboard](/cannot-see-widget-category-on-dashboard.md)