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Unable to create plugin version: containsWidget set" when publishing a widget

  • March 26, 2026
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Rem77

I'm trying to publish a widget (not a plugin). My manifest includes widgetApi and containsWidget: true as required for widgets. When I try to  publish via Plugins → Development → Publish, I get:                                   ▎ "Unable to create Plugin version: A plugin version cannot have 'containsWidget' set."                              ▎ It seems the publish flow is treating my widget as a plugin.

. How do I get this to publish as a widget?        

                                                      

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    Keith Rich
    • Keith Rich
    • New Member
    • May 27, 2026

    I’m having the same exact issue. 

     

    djv
    Figmate
    • djv
    • Community Support
    • May 28, 2026

    Hey ​@Rem77 Rem77 and @Keith Rich, thanks for flagging this issue! 

    I completely understand how this must be slowing down your workflow. I passed this onto the team to investigate. And they think that even though your manifest.json is correctly set up as a widget, the resource on our end that generated your plugin ID may have been created as a plugin rather than a widget. This could have either happened by going through the "New plugin..." flow instead of the "New widget...", or due to a bug on our side that caused it to register incorrectly.
     

    Could you both try going through the "New widget..." flow again to create a fresh resource, then update your manifest.json with the new ID and try publishing again? That should hopefully resolve the mismatch, but please let us know if the issue persists after trying that and we'll dig deeper!


     

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