Widgets are configurable elements used to dynamically build sections of a WordPress theme.
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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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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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How to Make a Custom Dashboard Widget to Display Custom Notification from Admin?
I am looking for a way to achieve the following:
A group of users 'students'
They login to the site
Each student can see a 'Custom Dashboard Widget(s)'
Each widget will carry a personal message ...
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Between functions.php, widgets and plugins, which is loaded first?
Customer asks if a specific carousel plugin he uses can be widgetized. That means i should create a widget inside functions.php which calls the plugin's function. That means that the plugin's code has ...
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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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Update widget form after drag-and-drop (WP save bug)
I've posted a bug-report about this a few months ago (on WordPress trac (Widget Instance Form Update Bug)) and I thought I'd try writing about it here too. Maybe someone has a better solution to this ...
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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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How can I add an incremental class identifier to my sidebar widgets?
My sidebar widget code in functions.php looks like this...
if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
register_sidebar(array(
'name' => 'Home Sidebar',
'id' => 'home-sidebar-widget',
...
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Add New Footer Widget Area with Limited Options?
I'm trying to add a new footer widget area to my theme. I was able to add the new footer widget area and it works correctly. But I would like to limit what can be done with the widget area by the end ...
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Should use widgets in this case?
We develop a new WordPress site with a new theme developed exclusively for this site.
Some widgets of the same type (such as two "Bookmarks" widgets) should be styled differently (that is have ...
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Enabling Default Widgets in a Custom Theme
In custom theme development, how does one enable default built-in widgets? Note I mean default built-in widgets, not custom ones. I tried the following example for a WP 3.12 blog by placing it in my ...
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Add a banner to the Dashboard
Is there a way to add a banner to the WP dashboard? I don't mean in a custom widget or anything, just a simple image banner.
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Adding iframe Content to Sidebar Widget
I'm trying to add an Amazon advertising widget in a WordPress sidebar widget (self-hosted WordPress, v3.1.3). The widget code is basically an iframe.
I've tried using the "Text" widget and pasting ...
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Add class to before_widget from within a custom widget
I have a simple custom widget that asks for its width (that is used later in the front end). The width field is a select dropdown, so a user have predefined options.
I will have many instances of my ...
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Is There A Hook To Process The Content Of The Text Widget?
Is there any filter which can be used in a plugin to process the content of the text widget before it is rendered?
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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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Install widget on plugin activation
Anyone know any resources to help me install my widget when my plugin is activated?
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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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FTP Widget Location
I am trying to recover some code I had several months ago (I have backups of everything). It was part of a text widget in my WordPress sidebar.
If I have the full backup, where can I find that code? ...
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Button in SideBarOther widget not showing up on all pages
An item in SideBarOther shows up on the main article listing page, but when I select an article (same page layout, the article replaces the listing), the item isn't there. There are two items in ...
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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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dynamically add scripts to WP_Widget widget() method
I have a wordpress widget that has the standard outline like:
class my_widget extends WP_Widget{
function my_widget(){
//do setup stuff
}
function form(){
//do form stuff
}
function ...
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Looking for good tutorial on how to create a wordpress widget that has a submit form in the front end
Looking for good tutorial on how to create a wordpress widget that has a submit form in the front end. The reason for this is I'm teaching myself plugin development and I'm struggling on how to ...
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Enabling Widgets By Default in Custom Theme Development
In WP theme building, if a sidebar is not active, can I turn it on? Also, if the sidebar is active, and doesn't contain any widgets, can I add some?
I'm a theme and plugin developer, but this is ...
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WordPress “include TEMPLATEPATH” or?
I built something like this:
Index Container Widgets Area
and I created a widget for that -
Categories Widget - Index Container .php
with this in:
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ...
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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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get_intermediate_image_sizes Get the Size Names but How Do I Get the Sizes?
I'm setting up a widget that allows to add an image to a sidebar / widget area.
Basically I have a dropdown that allows the user to select one of the available sizes inside the theme's functions.php ...
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Insert widgets after theme installation [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Install widget on plugin activation
Programmatically add widgets to sidebars
I'm creating a theme and after the installation it is need put the widgets. Exists any way ...
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Duplicate and change a Theme Widget
Is there a way (a common one) to duplicate and change a theme widget ?
I'm asking this because, I have this widget that displays the recent news and if we click, it will display ALL news, but I wish ...
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Call dynamic_sidebar but include/exclude named widgets?
Is it possible to include or exclude specific named widgets that are assigned to a named dynamic_sidebar call?
For example, if I've registered a sidebar named "my_sidebar" and the user had placed a ...
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How to automatically register widgets on new blog?
Is there a way to automatically register widgets when a new site is registered with a multi site setup? E.g. inside wpmu_new_blog?
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Context aware widgets. My work in progress
I'm working on a simple addition to the widget options to allow the user to set the "context" in which widgets show be shown.
Here's what I've got so far, with my questions in the comments...
1) ...
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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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Jquery checkbox -show posts with checked tags
Using jquery, How do I show a checkbox with the list of tags in the sidebar, and only show posts of the checked tag?
I cant seem to find this anywhere
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Possible to preset a widget's contents via a plugin script?
This plugin is a simple demo test to see if I can dynamically populate a pre-existing widget area with text. In this case, my theme has created the widget area "home-header-widget" and I'm trying to ...
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Prevent widgets removal
I'm building a site with a lot of widgets. They have been highly customized.
Several admins/editors will have to edit these widgets when the site is live.
Right now I'm scared to see a widget (and ...
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How to enqueue script if widget is displayed on page?
I created a widget that uses a jquery plugin, and I used is_active_widget to enqueue the script, it's working fine but it's also including the script even on pages that doesn't show this widget.
so is ...
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Different rss feeds in a single dashboard widget
I am using this snip of code to get rss feed on my dashboard as widget. It becomes problematic when it displays 5-6 different rss feeds which makes me run down deep.
How can I add 6 different feeds ...
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How do I create a widget that only allows a single instance?
How do I create a widget that only allows a single instance of a widget to be added through the Wordpress interface?
The default behaviour of widgets allows multiple instances to be added.
I am ...
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Enqueue script from widget method (of extended WP_widget object) possible? (slightly different from other variations of this question)
I am creating a widget plugin that a user could potentially use multiple iterations of the widget multiple times on a single widget-area / multiple widget-areas on a single page. Because of its ...
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Char limit on custom blog-post form? [closed]
I want to setup a simple custom form for users to post, which will automatically:
Subscribe user to updates (i.e. moderation approved, comment posted)
Enable DISQUS xor IntenseDebate comments
...
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Using Ajax call in jQuery doesn't work in widget
So I'm in the midst of creating a new conversion widget and I'm having some trouble getting the Ajax call to work in my widget. (works perfectly outside of WordPress).
The problem at the moment is ...
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Using tabs in admin widgets [closed]
Update: I should point out that I tested the method below on Plugin/theme options page and it worked perfectly. In-fact I was also able to include the jQuery cookie Plugin to preserve the current tab ...
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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 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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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 ( ...
