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I need to create a dashboard widget with input field and will display the text as shortcodes in posts
Hi I need to make automated price updater of my learning materials (e-books, videos, posters etc.) and it's such a drag every time I need to change prices on them to open every single posts because ...
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rotating tweets plugin widget [closed]
I am using the rotating tweets plugin, and it says in the readme file to use a shortcode to implement it or use a widget. I would like to go the widget route but have no idea how to accomplish this. I ...
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How the widget can be run by shortcode
I have my own widget, that uses WP_Widget class, and executes its code inside function in this class.
Is there any ways to run this widget using shortcode inside post?
This is how my widget ...
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Where to put my code: plugin or functions.php?
Is there an easy to understand scheme to decide what kind of code belongs to a plugin or the theme’s functions.php?
There are many cases and many debates about that topic, mostly because there are ...
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Create Widget or Enable Shortcodes in Sidebar
I'm well aware that WordPress by default does not process shortcodes in the sidebar. My question is why.
I'm building a very small plugin that exports some content when the shortcode is present. This ...
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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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When to use which plugin output method?
I'm a Drupal dev, getting into Wordpress. So far as I can tell there are a few different methods by which a plugin can output content on to a Wordpress site:
Shortcode
Rewrite API
Widget API
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page url in shortcode
I have a problem.
I'm using a custom shortcode to try to get the url. If the shortcode is inside a post then it gets the post url. When I open the post on a category list, this post shortcode works ...
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Shortcode from a widget is wrapped in unwanted <p> element
I'm using Black Studio TinyMCE Widget as a rich text editor widget. In a sidebar I inserted the TinyMCE widget with a [testimonial] shortcode and some content after it.
For example:
[testimonial]
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check for shortcode in post/pages AND widgets AND template files
For the next version of my plugin www.mapsmarker.com I would like to output the plugin´s css and js-files only
if the shortcode [mapsmarker ...] is used. For posts/and pages I already found this ...
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Inserting shortcode [stream /] into a Text widget
hi i'm trying to insert a short code into a Text widget but all its doing it showing the code and not processing it.
<?php echo do_shortcode(' [stream embed=false share=false width=500 height=560 ...
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the_widget() and widget's ID
Let's assume I have a widget that displays only its name:
<p>
<?php echo $args['widget_id'] ?>
</p>
So when I drag & drop my widget to any sidebar it shows:
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Shortcode displays always first. Once again
OK, I've had a problem with echoes in my last shortcodem, but everything works fine now.
But I have another one:
function myWidget_shortcode( $atts ) {
extract( shortcode_atts( array(
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Custom shortcode in widget forced to top of widget
A custom shortcode i made is being forced to the top of the widget outside of the widget container. Any ideas why? This is my code...
function nktmediaplayer_func($atts) {
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