What Happens If I Delete a Widget That Is Embedded on My Site?

Overview

A widget loads on your website through a small embed snippet, a container div tied to that widget’s ID plus the shared Feedspace script. Deleting the widget in your dashboard does not touch the snippet sitting in your page, so it helps to know what changes and what you need to clean up.

This comes up when you have rebuilt a testimonial section and want to retire an old widget, but it is still embedded on a live page. Once you delete it, that widget stops loading wherever its embed code is placed. The leftover snippet then renders nothing, which can leave an empty space or a blank area on your page, so the next move is to take that snippet out of your site.

What happens when you delete the widget

When you open the three-dot menu on a widget card and click Delete, a Delete Widget window opens and reminds you that You need to remove embed code from website as well. After you confirm, the widget stops serving reviews at its ID, so any page still carrying that embed code shows nothing in its place instead of the testimonials it used to display.

Steps to clean up the embed code

1. Open your website page editor and find the embed snippet for that widget. It is the container div carrying the widget’s Widget ID, together with the Feedspace script line.
2. Remove that snippet from the page. If you run more than one widget on the same page, delete only the block for the widget you removed and leave the others in place.
3. Save and publish your page so the change goes live.
4. Open the page in your browser to confirm the empty area is gone.

If you only want to change which reviews appear, you do not need to delete anything. Edit the widget instead, update the selected reviews, and the same embed code keeps working on your page with no edits to your site.

What’s next

• Read how to delete a widget in Feedspace for the full delete flow.
• If you are replacing the old widget with a new one, see how to embed widgets on your website to add the new embed code.

Common questions

Will my other widgets still work after I delete this one?

Yes. Each widget has its own Widget ID, so deleting one has no effect on any other widget. The rest keep loading their reviews exactly as before, on the same page or anywhere else they are embedded.

Do I have to remove the embed code before I delete the widget?

The delete window reminds you that you need to remove the embed code from your website as well. Removing it is the cleaner order, so the page never shows an empty area. If you delete the widget first, your site stays online, but the old snippet renders nothing until you take it out.

I just wanted to swap the reviews, not remove the widget. What should I do?

Edit the widget rather than deleting it. Change the selected reviews inside the editor and your existing embed code keeps working, so there is nothing to update on your website.