Widgets are configurable elements used to dynamically build sections of a WordPress theme.
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How to hack recent comments default widget?
I would like to hack the default Recent Comments widget to show also the avatar of commenter.
The modification should be really easy, if I change directly the code in default-widgets.php
if ( ...
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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...
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Changing widget options via the functions.php when there are no hooks
The problem: to change a widget's options with a custom function in functions.php, when there are no useful hooks, and where there are multiple occurrences of the same widget (multiwidget).
This ...
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Widget “Save” resetting jQuery hidden fields
I have a widget plugin that I've created, that lists about 10 fieldsets. jQuery runs at the beginning and hides and fieldsets that have no values. There are also buttons that allow to "Add" and ...
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How Can A Widget With Only One Instance Be Defined?
How can a widget which of which only one instance can be used?
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How to Get Admin Settings for a widget when using the_widget() with custom widget
I have searched around for an answer to this question and I found this: Manual display of widget which gave me a solution of:
if(function_exists('the_widget')) {
$instance = get_option( ...
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Widget Display Options
in regards to my previous question. I am playing around with the widgets page and have added a google maps feature to the "Pages Sidebar" Tab.
the google maps feature displays on the contact page, ...
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widgets in contacts only
I have a few pages listed in my top menu. these are: contacts, My account and messages. I have added a map to the "Pages Sidebar" tab in admin. But it seems to add the map to all 3 pages listed above ...
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Which file displays the date archive?
I'm building a new theme. I'm now working on to figure out which file is needed to show the "whole" post for a specific date which displays when you click on a date in the built in WordPress calendar ...
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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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Remove Widgets in Dashboard
Another noob question...when authors log on and access their Dashboard, they see all sorts of widgets such as an Internet Explorer warning, news on what's going on with WordPress.
Is there anyway to ...
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Image picker widget
I want to create a custom widget so the user can select 2 images from the media library via a dropdown box and display them in a sidebar.
So I need the widget to display 2 drop downs, which each show ...
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Best way to allow manageable social media URLS?
I am working on a site and it is possible that the site will have a number of pages which feature links to the client's social networking sites (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn...).
Now I know that the ...
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Display specific widgets in different area's around the page
I've installed the Jigoshop plugin to create an e-commerce site. It has several built in widgets that I want to use. Is it possible to pull out specific widgets and display them within a page ...
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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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how to create theme based widget that can be drop in sider bar or footer
I am developing a installable theme in wordpress I have created a contact form and called that form in footer but I want to create a widget that should be theme based mean i dont want any plugin.I can ...
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Script to remove all inactive widgets?
I've been working with widgets a lot lately and have amassed a ton of widgets in the inactive widgets collection.
Can someone share a script or plugin that will remove all inactive widgets from the ...
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Can I ignore caching of a plugin in W3 Total Cache?
I currently have a plugin that lets me display a random post in a widget. The problem is that if I activate w3 total cache it will only display that post as long as the cache hasn't been cleared. Is ...
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Customized widget area - how to override or filter class xoxo?
I need some help with restyling my alternate widget areas. I've created some new widget areas, and placed one into the main content of my index.php. This works just fine, however i want to style it ...
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How to embed form data within the 'Add new post'
I want users to be able to use a car template in new posts. The template will include items such as a photograph of a car, make, model, number of doors, colour of car, etc.
Users will not want to use ...
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How to add multiple copies of a widget from “available widgets”
I've found a widget that I need to add to more than one sidebar widget area. However, apparently its been coded so that once you drag it from "available widgets" over to a sidebar widget, it ...
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How to use stack flair on my site?
I want to add stack flair on my WordPress site. How can I use that?
I want to put it in the right hand side column.
Can anyone help me with this?
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Conditional Display of Links in Widgets
I want the links widget in my sidebar to display links based on the page the user is on. For example, if the user is on the home page I want it to display link1, link2 and link3. But if the user goes ...
