Widgets are configurable elements used to dynamically build sections of a WordPress theme.
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Wordpress author details plugin/widget
Does anyone know any wordpress plugin to display the author's profile & image similar to the image attached
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adding multiple sidebars on pages
I am using twentyten theme and I want there to be two sidebars on my page - one on the left and the second on the right.
Can any one tell me how to do that?
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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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AJAX Contact Form Issue
I created a contact form for my sidebar that is working perfectly in Chrome but not in IE or FF.
I've been staring at it for hours and can't find out what I did wrong.
I'm not getting any errors ...
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Including PHP files doesn't work outside of Localhost
I have a bunch of widgets that I load from php files, like so:
I added a PHP CODE widget and inside wrote:
<?php
include '/wp-content/themes/myTheme/parts/block1.php';
?>
This worked well on ...
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How to remove Broken Link Checker widget from admin menu
I'm trying to clean up the Admin Dashboard widgets so that only the administrator level users can see the various meta boxes, but no matter what i've tried the Broken Link Checker widget will not go ...
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List a current posts' taxonomy terms in a widget in Wordpress
I would very much like to know if there is a widget that exists that would let me show the current page's associated taxonomy terms (preferably hierarchically) in a widget.
For example, if the ...
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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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Subscribe2 widget with choosing categories?
Is it possible to specify the category people can choose to subscribe to in the Subscribe2 (Wordpress Plugin) widget?
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Can I create drag and drop widgets like iGoogle in WordPress?
I want to make something like iGoogle in WordPress, in which I can drag and drop the widgets. How could that be done in HTML 5?
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Widget code is not working on WordPress.com Hosted Blogs
I have developed a JavaScript widget which works fine when I embed it in any of my html pages. The code is something like this
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
var asset_host = ...
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Excluding Sticky Posts from The Loop and from WP_Query() in WordPress?
The following snippet is from a sidebar widget that lists "recent posts". Since its on the home page and I feature my lastest sticky post prominently on that page, I want to skip over the sticky in ...
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How do i export the HTML from text widgets?
I placed HTML in several text widgets which where lost after i deleted all inactive widgets and changed themes but i have found the data in the tables.
The only problem, its mixed in with all this ...
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How to remove the parentheses from the category widget
In the default category widget, when you check the "show posts count" checkbox, the number of posts appear surrounded by parentheses, how to remove them.
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Calling widget via function in themes files (hard code)
Finally I finished to write my widget, and now want to call it using function inside themes php files.
My widget looks like this:
function reg_custom_widget() {
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How can I add an author-box below a post?
I would like to have a box below each blogpost with information about the author.
These screenshots are examples for what I would like to have:
Links that could help:
I've found these links ...
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Pre-install widgets in WP-Admin
When a user activates the TwentyEleven theme in the admin widgets area, the user already has the Main Sidebar populated with a few standard widgets. Could someone explain or point me in the right ...
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How to add class on Widget Title
This is an example of register sidebar function from codex. My focus is on the before_title argument. What i want is to add a class to the title(<h3>). From my widget code or may be pass the ...
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Widget items disappearing
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
register_sidebar(array(
"name" => "Top Widget Area",
"id" => "topWidgetArea-$i",
));
I just create a new sidebar with this.
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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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Changing $before_widget for certain widgets
So I'm working on designing a Wordpress theme with lots of extra widgets. The ones I have added are in separate files, and called in the functions.php I have lots of css on the widgets themselves and ...
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Excluding specific widgets from default sidebar class
I have two sidebars using the register_sidebars function that display each widget as a list item with a class of .box:
<?php if(function_exists('register_sidebars')){
register_sidebars(2, array(
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How to process content in a widget? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is There A Hook To Process The Content Of The Text Widget?
I have created a plugin that uses tokens in the body content to dynamically insert certain content. For ...
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How to Validate Widget Input
I have been working with widgets and widgets API.
I see that the widget form is rendered and processed through widget() function. I can write validation logic inside the widget() function. I will ...
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Get custom field values into the sidebar/widget?
I haven't seen this done, but I want to return the custom field values outside of the loop in the sidebar.
Is there a plugin, or another way to achieve this?
thanks!
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How do I use is_active_widget?
This is the manual page:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/is_active_widget
And this is the code:
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/3.2.1/wp-includes/widgets.php
But I'm still ...
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How do I add a widget from an Android phone?
Currently my only internet access is via my phone, and I need to add a widget to a Wordpress site. This requires dragging and dropping the widget to the sidebar, which I cannot do via the web browser ...
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How to get “Widget Logic” plugin's input value in a custom widget code (to display on the Widget admin page)
I've got the "Widget Logic" plugin installed. I have created my own widget called "Buzz". I have a sidebar with multiple instances of my custom widget "Buzz".
Now, on the Widgets admin page when a ...
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Where do I save widget code for wordpress?
Pretty simple, I've written a widget and I can't find out for the life of me where to save it?! Using the most recent version of wordpress.
Thanks,
John.
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Widget Area: Modify $param['xy'] from widget-$n
I have different widget areas. One is a horizontal area that may contain eg. 4 widgets next to each other. My Question is how would i add a different eg. $param['widget_title'] to widget number $n ...
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Is there a need to do apply_filter('widget_title', $instance['title']) or any other 'widget_xxx' filters?
I am reading the book Professional Wordpress, and have code like
$title = apply_filters('widget_title', $instance['title']);
$name = apply_filters('widget_name', $instance['name']);
...
I wonder if ...
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Can WordPress Read Its Own RSS Feed?
I am using a static front page for my blog to which I have added a widgetized sidebar area to hold an RSS feed widget. I want to show summaries of the latest two or three blog posts on the front page, ...
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Bookshelf plugin and/or widget
I'm looking for some kind of plugin and/or widget to display a list of book covers in the sidebar. Are there any good options out there?
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Problem with widgets
I am using the theme 3Grey. It is widget enabled. There are few widgets that are hard coded in the theme. These widgets donot appear in the sidebar in the widgets page. If i try adding new widgets the ...
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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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different class (css) for sidebar widgets
I want to add different class (css) in widgets in site sidebar .
For example:
First widget in Sidebar -> class=sidebar-top1
Second widget in Sidebar -> class=sidebar-top2
third widget in Sidebar ...
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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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Add widgets to available widgets section without changing the theme?
I have a client that wants to use a particular theme without modification, but will likely want to have more widgets than are available with a given theme.
Is there a way to add widgets to the list ...
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Create a widget that allows text input
I need to create a simple widget that has a text input field.
I need the widget to create the markup below...
<div class="textwidget">
<div class="avatar">
<div ...
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How often does the RSS widget get updates?
I am asking since I am trying to understand if this widget is causing my server to overuse CPU or memory.
But either way - it's interesting to know.
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How did I enable atom feeds in a fresh WP3 install?
I've just install Wordpress 3, and I can't figure out how to put an atom link in the sidebar, under (or otherwise near) the RSS links. I looked at sidebar.php, but it simply references a meta ...
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Displaying a widget only on long posts (over X characters)
I'm looking to display a standard wordpress widget only on posts that are over X amount of characters in length (or another method that can roughly calculate the height of of a post.)
I am looking to ...
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Use Media upload in custom widget on wordpress 3.5
I'm creating a small widget for wordpress 3.5 that allows you to upload images.
The widget is loaded correctly by wordpress. When I add the widget to a sidebar upload button does not work. If I ...
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Archive - same title for the first two posts
I created an archive page called archive.php
Here I include header / footer and this code:
<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : ?>
<h1 class="entry-title"><a ...
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Print owned created widget
Im trying to print my own created widget with the following function:
the_widget();
The widget is defined with the following values:
$this->WP_Widget('openingHours', 'Opening', $widget_ops, ...
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Displaying a widget in sidebar only when no other widgets rendered?
I am working on a custom theme, basically migrating a current sites look and feel into WordPress. Most of everything is based on Pages, and all of these pages should have a left sidebar. Of those ...
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Style the archives/category sidebar widget via theme
I would like to change the appearance of the categories and archives widgets in the sidebar such that each category/month alternates the row color. The only way I know how to accomplish this requires ...
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Custom page sidebar using Template dropdown box
i am wondering how i go about making a Template for some of my pages to use a different sidebar? I have created the widget like this:
register_sidebar(array(
'id' => 'ourPat-sidebar',
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Is It Possible to Restore Accidentally Deleted Widgets?
I accidentally deleted the widgets without dragging it to the inactive widgets section.
I have a backup of all the files and the database but i have changed many things on the site other than the ...
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How to check if searchform.php is being included as widget?
I'd like to put something like this in searchform.php:
<?php if($widget){ ?>
//load serach form for sidebar...
<?php }else{ ?>
//load different search form for page content (404 ...
