Widgets are configurable elements used to dynamically build sections of a WordPress theme.
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Show or hide a widget from pages
I want to add a check option to the wordpress admin sidebar when I am writing a post or a page to display a specific widget. I tried display-widgets plugin but I want to be able to show a widget ...
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WooCommerce Layered Nav Widget
Has anyone used the "WooCommerce Layered Nav" widget.
I wonder if the attributes could be visible on the single product page?
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How to hook into unregistering a widget instance?
I would like to hook into a widget instance after it is removed from a sidebar panel on the Appearances -> Widgets admin page.
So if the instance was an active widget and then removed, I would like ...
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Theme development: Pre-activated widgets [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Programmatically add widgets to sidebars
Is it possible to develop a theme that has certain widgets automatically activated when the theme is activated?
For example:
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Simple subscribe widget form
Im looking over internet for some simple solution of email subscription widget but no luck.
Or they are too complicated and paid, or they are relaying on some external email functions.
Im no ...
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Get page IDs based on which template they are using?
I have a situation where I need to provide a dropdown of pages in a widget, based on whether they are using a specific template. In other words, for all pages using template 'Foo', get the post ID.
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How can I re-register my blogs widgets?
I deleted my wp_options database file in error. I replaced it with a clean install file.
Now my widgets are still present in my widgets area but none are recognized by wp.
Am I right in thinking ...
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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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dynamic sidebar in front page
I am developing TwentyTen child theme and wish to display dynamic sidebar on front page, but something is not quite right.
I modified loop-page.php:
<div class="entry-content">
<?php ...
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Widgets: Show Recent Posts Only if the Posts Have Both Categories X and Y
I've been trying to create a Recent Post widget where it only show/display posts that have both categories X and Y (or more). The categories X and Y is user-defined, so I'm planning to make it look ...
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Author Link in Recent Posts Widget
I want to add author link into the recent post widget. For example if any user post on my web from his LinkedIn ID (which I have allowed) so in Recent Posts where it shows, <time> By: ...
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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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What is this instance variable doing in the Widgets class
The lack of documentation for the WP_Widget class is driving me mad. Here is what I have salvaged off the codex:
public function form($instance){
?>
<label for="<?php ...
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Dashboard widget custom positioning?
I cannot figure out how to arrange my custom widgets one left and one right.
I'm using this code to create custom widgets:
//Add my comments. Shows user his last 5 comments
function ...
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Simple widget causing whitescreen
This widget code is causing my WP site to white screen. I've re-factored the code about 5 times trying to solve it, but no luck.
<?php
class latest_mag_issue_widget extends WP_Widget {
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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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event organiser not loading in main content area
there is possibly a very simple answer for this, but im afraid im a novice at this stuff :(
on my wordpress site Im using the event list shortcode in the main content area and the calendar in the ...
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Recent Comments from Specific Category Widget
I've been trying to create a sidebar widget to display recent comments from specific category. I'm having difficulties in determining how Wordpress knows from which categories the comments are.
I ...
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How do I create Widget within plugin that uses its own class?
I wrote WordPress plugin and want to include 2 extra Widgets with it...
if( !class_exists('plugin_name') ) {
class plugin_name {
// plugin code
}
}
// include widgets code
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check if registered sidebar is active & has widget content
I'd like to check if a registered sidebar has widget content - but can't seem to find a WP function for this - is_active_widget checks if it has content, but not if it exists or not.
function ...
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Widget queries even when there are no sidebars?
I'm trying to reduce my database queries. I don't have any sidebars or widgets set but I noticed the following query
SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = 'widget_pages' LIMIT 1
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How do I stop a widget from displaying on mobile site?
On my main site I have used the search widget in the sidebar.
However, the mobile theme I am using (minileven) already has a search box built into its menu bar. This results in a second search box ...
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Replace the “widgets” label in the backend
Is it possible to replace/modify the "Widgets" label in the backend by an other label ? ... and do the same thing for the "Widgets" title in the widget page.
Is there a filter or another solution ?
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How do I delete a widget instance? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Programmatically add widgets to sidebars
How can I delete/remove a widget instance programatically?
Not the widget itself, one of its instances in a sidebar.
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Change Widgets Order In Plugin - Get Array Of Sidebar Widgets [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Programmatically add widgets to sidebars
i create front-site drag and drop layout manager.
I need to change widget order, when user drag widget A over widget B, but how ...
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How To Determine If A Filter Is Called In A Sidebar/Widget Context?
So I have a plugin that appends or prepends an enhanced author biography to the content of a page/post/custom post type.
It does this by hooking to either the_content or the_excerpt and ...
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Grabbing how many posts by month for a dashboard widget
I am trying to develop a dashboard widget that counts posts or post types by month. I am really not sure how to go about doing this.
I know how to create a dashboard widget and all that with post ...
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Using AJAX in a Widget to Sort items [closed]
Hi I am trying to use jQuery sortable to sort items in a widget on the admin side.
However I am having trouble getting any data in the JS file when I do alert(order).
Any idea what might be wrong ...
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How Can I Duplicate a Widget?
By duplicate, I don't me copy the code from a (core) widget and change it a bit. That's pretty easy.
I want the push button ability to grab all the settings from a given widget, copy them, stick them ...
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How to stop comments widget conflicting with theme comments
I have a widget that retrieves and displays the latest comments for a WordPress site. It displays the comment author, Gravatar, comment and date / time.
The function to display the comments is in a ...
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How to use jQuery on widget admin page
I have a lengthy form config for my widget so I thought about using radio buttons to hide and show the relevant input fields instead of having them all after each other. But it doesn't seem to work. I ...
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How do I stop out of stock items from appearing on my WooCommerce site when using the Layered Nav widget
WooCommerce includes a handy Layered Nav widget. This allows you to filter the catalog items based on attributes that you've set, including for variations of items (like different sizes.)
However, if ...
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Latest/Recent posts widget title link
I have been struggling with this for a few hours now...
I want to add a link to my recent posts widget title.
I have tried a number of options given in forums but nothing seems to work.
Tried ...
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How To Add an Extra Field in All WordPress Available Widgets?
I keep searching on how to add an extra field on every WordPress available widget, something like Subtitle after the widget's Title.
Is there a way to hook on every available widget?
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Best practice to include custom user styles in widgets
What's the best way to include custom user styles in widgets? For example adjust colors for buttons, borders etc. without having the user to develop a complete new stylesheet.
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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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fetch meta fields inside a widget
I'm trying to fetch a (date) meta field from a custom post type in a sidebar widget here: http://www.oransje.com/utvikling/ngnf/kurs/
Somehow the date doesn't show correctly inside the widget ...
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wordpress pinboard theme
I would like to add content(just plain text) to the first page of my site and also have the posts displayed on it aswell. I am using pinboard theme.
Does anyone know a good way of achieving this ...
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Issue with checked() echoing on to page
This is kind of a weird one. I'm in the process of building a widget that goes through posts of type product and displays a list of checkboxes in the admin panel to display/show the products in the ...
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Want to be able to sign up subscribers as authors
I want to be able to select a subscriber an author of a post in the admin so it displays their name as having written the post, but I do not want to give them any additional privileges (if they login ...
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Show widget when not using SSL
My wordpress site supports http and https. What I want to do is to add a widget when surfing over http that says something like "Surf this site secure" to show the visitor that I also have a secured ...
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How to execute SQL SELECT query and see the results?
I want to run a SELECT query on the Wordpress database and get the results on the screen.
Any widget which does it?
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In widget, the value of select field doesn't get updated, changes after saving
I'm building a simple widget which will allow the user to select a post among a list of posts.
For some reason, when I select an option, I believe it actually gets selected but the option doesn't ...
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Help adding image upload functionality to widget
I am working on a small WordPress widget and I am trying to set it up where the user can upload an image. So far, the necessary scripts are loading but when I click the "Media Library Image" button ...
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How To Disable Category Hierarchy In Categories Widget?
I want to disable all category's hierarchy in default categories widget. With a code in functions.php . But how? Thanks in advance.
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How to Modify a Widgets UL and/or LI Classes
Im attempting to use twitter UL styles on a custom menu widget.
For example, in BootStrap they have a Nav List Style for UL's
<ul class="nav nav-list">
<li class="nav-header">List ...
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Image Uploader API
I want to create a widget for my theme that will let me upload an image to WP and crop it to a certain size. Can anyone point me to the codex page or a tutorial on how to a bare bone implementation of ...
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Hide widget if user is logged in without plugin
I would like to be able to hide a widget in the front-end if the user is logged in and only display the widget when the user is not logged in.
I have found a plugin that does this called Widget Logic ...
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Problem on register/login widgets
I have downloaded and uploaded, activated successfully the plugin : Sidebar login of wordpress.org, which can be found here : Sidebar login
In the picture description of sidebar login(in the link ...
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How to use template field in the Event Organiser plugin widget
I'm using this plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/event-organiser/
I notice a field in the widget called "Template (leave blank for default)". How would I use this field to show the standard ...
