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Programmatically add widgets to sidebars
I would like to programmatically add widgets to my two sidebars that I've got. I couldn't find any official way of doing it?
I started looking in the database. I've found that it's the ...
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Custom Post Type Data in Sidebar widgets?
(note: this question was originally about Custom Fields, but @MikeSchinkel had a better solution involving Custom Post Types)
On my site I have several pages which I want to show the same data in the ...
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Loading scripts only if a particular shortcode or widget is present
I needed a way to filter a page/posts content before it was loaded so I could add scripts to the header if a specific shortcode was present. After much searching I came across this on ...
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Getting post-thumbnails from another WP site
I have two WordPress installations, one at http://inversekarma.in and the other at http://inversekarma.in/photos. The latter is a photoblog, and its theme uses the standard WP post thumbnails (EDIT: ...
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Highlight custom widgets in the admin area?
I have created some custom widgets for my client to use, but I want to make them stand out amidst the fifteen or so standard widgets in the admin area. How can I do this?
I have solved this problem ...
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List all sidebar names?
I'm listing all sidebars like that:
global $wp_registered_sidebars;
echo '<pre>';
print_r($wp_registered_sidebars);
echo '</pre>'
So I'm getting something like:
Array
(
...
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How to add author details in the post sidebar?
I would like to add author details in the sidebar instead of bottom of the post?
Can anyone tell me how to do that?
As of now i'm using like this in the loop
<?php $curauthor = ...
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Worpress twenty eleven sidebar on Pages
I am using 2011 theme, any how I managed to get sidebar on single.php pages by installing child theme,
But now I want sidebar on pages,
How do I get it?
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call sidebar from file
i need to call a sidebar into my header. i switched to the new twenty twelve theme and created my own child theme. With this new theme i decided to keep things organised and together, so i put my ...
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how do I get_sidebar into a varaible?
I want to get a sidebar and save it in a Variable,
This is impossible with the get_sidebar function since it simply prints out
the sidebar, is there another function that I can use?
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Limit widget to certain sidebar?
I have multiple "sidebars", but not all of them are the same size. Not all widgets fit in all sidebars (for example, I have a "footer sidebar" where the client can place custom widgets, but they are ...
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Limit number of Widgets in Sidebars
If I use a custom widgetized area (for example footer) where there is only a limited number of spots for widgets (by design), can I limit the number of widgets the user may include in that specific ...
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Best approach for loading a sidebar Only if the screen max-width is >900px?
I have been playing around with media queries quite a bit lately and I love the concept. It is so easy to display images or change div floats depending upon what the users screen max-width is.
I'm ...
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Display Custom Taxonomy in Sidebar in Two Columns
I have a custom post type (photos) with a custom taxonomy (categories) and I'd like to display the taxonomy list in my sidebar in two columns. I have a modified snippet that I found elsewhere to do ...
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Including Custom Post Types in “Recent Posts” Widget
I'm able to easily include my custom post types into my main loop by making small adjustments with query_posts(), but I'm not sure how I would go about including custom post types in the "Recent ...
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Manual display of widget
I currently have a widget that needs to be manually displayed on the front page. The rest of the pages it shows up in the widget sidebar, (this is accomplished with 'Widget Logic') but on the front ...
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Hooking a function onto the sidebar?
I'm looking for a way to add some content to the top of the sidebar when it get's loaded.
I've tried hooking onto the get_sidebar action as referenced here, but it seems to override the sidebar call ...
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Translate widget titles using qTranslate plugin
I'm actually using the qTranslate plugin to translate my website. It works really well with everything except one thing. the titles of my sidebar widgets.
Actually, to translate some words we need to ...
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1answer
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Getting the Next and Previous Posts Titles in the Sidebar?
Let's assume that I have the following posts with the following titles:
PostA (is assigned to the 'category 1')
PostX (category 2)
PostB (category 1)
PostC (category 1)
PostD (category 1)
PostY ...
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How to wrap the widget content with a div or get the widget title outside?
Is there a way to get the widget title outside of the widget area like this:
<ul>
<li>
<h2 class="widgettitle">The title here</h2>
<div class=""widget>
...
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Adding 'current_post_item' class to current post in the loop
I'm using a loop in the sidebar of my site to show all the posts that are in that category.
Now I'd like to include a 'current_post' class to the current post that is being displayed to style that ...
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Specific and Different Ads for each Post?
I am working with a magazine client who sells adversiting offline in their magazine and now has a WordPress online magazine. Each of their stories is broken into different posts, and they are using ...
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Is there possibility to Customize the present theme adding sidebars
I am using a wordpress theme which has just header and footer .I w'd like to continue using it by changing the width and adding side bars .
Could any one help me to change the width(to fit to the ...
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Add individual <hx> tag to widget title in sidebar
In my sidebar every widget title is enclosed in <h2> tags.
I use 4 widgets in my sidebar and I'd like to have the first 2 widget titles as <h2> and the other 2 as <h4>.
I changed ...
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Main Sidebar Dispappeared - What could possibly cause this?
I used to have the drag & drop Widgets on Main Sidebar working but for some reason it no longer works. That is, whatever I place there (on the back-end) is no longer visible on the front-end.
In ...
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Post X of Y in single.php / sidebar.php
Is there a way of putting "Post X of Y" into my sidebar? I think I can only show it when it is a single blog post (something like checking if the content is_single) but I want to be able to see which ...
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Sidebar missing from Homepage
The home page displays the sidebar below the rest of all the latest posts, leaving a vacant sidebar area for the majority of the (long) page. The sidebar displays fine on any single post.
My ...
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Incorrect sidebar showing on WooCommerce Store page
I am developing a refresh of my site on a new VPS plan and on of the main changes is switching from the dreaded wp e-commerce to WooCommerce.
The URL to the WooCommerce store page is ...
