XF 2.1 Can I add widgets in side menu?

[gogo]

The red part.

 

[ge66]

It should be below

<div class="js-offCanvasNavTarget"></div>

in PAGE_CONTAINER

It works with text but I can't get it to work with a widget.

 

[ge66]

With the information in this post:

XF 2.1 - No data in widgets contextParams when called from template

If I add a widget (I wrote) by selecting one or more positions for it (in the sidebar for example), it has access to a protected variable contextParams. In it I can find information about the current forum or thread, depending on where widget displays. But if I add the same widget using in a...

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I got one of my widgets to work.