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How to change links in the 3 main categories, on widget category, to a javascript function call

I'd like to know.. How could I change my 3 main categories links, so they call a javascript function? I'm using Snapshot Theme from WooThemes. Here's the current state of the website: ...
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nowplaying.include.php Will Not Display Results

Cyberchimps.com recommended I post here as they believed there may be a global issue with my request. I thought what I was missing was obvious and simple, but two months into this and being referred ...
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Add a select-option to the default widgets

I would like to add an extra feature to one of the default widgets so that the user can choose from the select-field to either align the widget to the left, center or to the right. How would I be ...
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Custom “Latest News” widget wipes out the site

I want to register a custom "Latest News" widget, which would be teh exact copy of the default "Recent Posts" widget, with minor modifications. Here's the original code, taken from the ...
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Using a loop to build and update widgets

So I have a widget Im making which allows users to update 4 switches. Each switch has the same fields, name, description, price, amount so I decided to build the widget using a for loop instead of ...
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Is it possible to dynamically add widget areas?

I am creating a very custom and unique theme that uses posts as sections for the front page. The posts all have a configured style to them, so I am wondering if it is possible to dynamically create ...
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PHP script working in PHP page but not PHP widget [closed]

I have this code : <html> <form method="post" action=""> <div align="center"> <p><b> What to see if the server is online rite now just add the server Address and Port ...
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javaScript in <head> section of WP API

How do I place the following javaScript in the <head> section of the Wordpress Widgets API menu screen? <script type="text/javascript"> jQuery(window).load(function() { ...
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Sidebar If Query

I have this query which I'm using in the sidebar, but when I place it in a php widget, the whole sidebar disappears... Any ideas? global $wp_query; $postid = $wp_query->post->ID; if ( ! empty( ...
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How to make widget title accept php?

I am trying to make widgets accept php, but without resorting to plugins. So far I have enabled php for the widget_text but cant make it work for widget_title. I am using the following code in ...
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Stuck with sidebar registering

I tried to add a custom page to my Wordpress template. That part is good. What I´m stuck with is a common sidebar that appears although I registered a custom sidebar for it. I am calling the ...
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What is the correct way to build a widget using OOP

I am working on a simple search form widget, with a built in autocomplete capability (You can download the current version here). The plugin is working, but I am currently rewriting all the code using ...
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Transform php code into a widget?

how can I create a widget out of a php code? It's just a disqus code that I would like to place in the sidebar. I could just paste the code in the widget section (my tag), but then I would not be ...
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Dynamic Sidebars & Echo

I can sucesfully get my dynamic sidebar to work like so: <div class="sidebar sidebar-first"> <ul class="widget-area first"> <?php dynamic_sidebar( 'pop-photos-sidebar' ); ...
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Call plugin with php function

This plugin only works as widget. I need call this plugin with php function. How to modify this code ? <?php /* Plugin Name: AJAX Calendar Plugin URI: ...
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Wordpress widget/sidebar dividers?

I have a widget sidebar, but I'd like dividers between them. I can achieve this in CSS using boring borders, but I have a png image I'd rather use instead. Is there a way to insert a divider after ...
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PHP Widget and do_shortcode

I'm using PHP Widget which allows PHP code to execute from a widget. I tried using this code to execute do_shortcode but it's not rendering <?php $lat = get_field('woo_maps_lat'); $long = ...
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Setting up widgets in wordpress with a unique ID for the after_title argument

I try to get the collapsible-widget-area plugin so that every widget it creates inside the collapsible area has a unique id <div> after its title. function get_args() { $this->args = ...
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How display widget by id

I fetched widget id this way: $the_sidebars = wp_get_sidebars_widgets(); print_r( $the_sidebars['sidebar-1'] ); It shows: Array ( [0] => recent-posts-2 [1] => recent-comments-2 [2] ...
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Edit the Publish Widget Options

Another noob question - under the 'Publish' widget in a default vanilla installation of WordPress 3.3.1, we would like to 'simplify' the Publish widget/ Specifically, we would like to have no 'draft' ...
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How to add homepage Widget?

How do I add a 'Homepage' widget to my widget bar in Wordpress 3.3 ??!! EG: Dashboard > Widgets > Homepage with same fields as others
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Don't display a sidebar widget when on a specific page

I am trying to stop latest blog items from displaying in the blog section of my site. I have used the following code: <?php if ( is_page('blog') ) { ?> <h2>Don't display ...
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Has anyone managed to integrate the wp_editor inside a widget?

Adding this in the widget form method: wp_editor($text, $this->get_field_id('text')); seems to work. But after you press the "Save" button the widget goes funky... Adding ...
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If has $title in widgets

I'm writing a widget to display 125 x 125 pixel ads. There are 6 spaces for the ads and currently all works. However, I would to add some conditional logic so that if nothing is entered in the ...
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How to define template directory in this widget code

How can I define the template directory (So I can reference and image in the 'images' folder) from within this php widget code? // WIDGET CODE GOES HERE ...
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Modify pages widget and make a plugin?

I would like to make a plug-in that adds a widget. I would like it to be based on the current pages widget but add the ability to select either include OR exclude by drop down or checkbox then list ...
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Code in custom widget queries all posts, when it should only query the current post

I have a query in a custom widget (my first one!) which, if it's of custom post type book, retrieves the post ID. This then gets used in a WP_QUERY to retrieve data about the page. This works ...
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Style every second widget?

I need to apply a certain style to every second widget in my sidebar, and I'm reluctant to use :nth-child due to cross-browser compatibility issues. Is there a bit of PHP that will allow me to apply a ...
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Limit the number of inactive widgets

I'm trying to restrict the number of widgets from the "wp_inactive_widgets" sidebar to maximum 10, because the widgets admin page is incredibly slow: add_filter('pre_update_option_sidebars_widgets', ...
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517 views

How do I create a drop down menu in a widget?

How do I create a simple dropdown menu with 3 options in a widget? I'm using $instance to do it. How would it look in a barebones widget?
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Anything I can add to functions.php to make text widgets accept PHP?

Is there a way I can make text widgets accept PHP? Perhaps something I can add in to functions.php? I'm redesigning my site, and I was wondering why I didn't use widgets at all in my current design, ...
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Get the sidebar ID in which the current widget was dropped

How can I find out in which sidebar was a widget dropped? From inside that widget. More precisely from the form() function. Can I automatically remove the widget if it's not added in the appropriate ...
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238 views

Count widgets of a certain type

How can I get the number (count) of, let's say, text widgets from a sidebar? for eg. if I drop 4 text widgets in the sidebar, I want to get this number somehow from another widget
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Missing argument 3 for wp_register_sidebar_widget()

I installed the Deprecated Calls plugin and it's telling me to change register_sidebar_widget() and register_widget_control(), essentially add wp_ first. I did but I'm getting Missing argument 3 for ...
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Missing sidebar parameter “fix” - before_content

as you know the sidebar parameters from register_sidebar() that control the widget layout are - before_widget - after_widget - before_title - after_title the problem is that you cannot implement ...
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Widget Javascript code (ajax)

I have a widget like this: class test_widget extends WP_Widget{ function test_widget(){ $widget_ops = array('description' => 'test widget'); $this->WP_Widget(false, 'Test', ...