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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changing wp-admin/widgets.php
We want to design the widgets page in the admin panel a little differently, mainly in order to help the site administrator understand where each widget will appear in the site:
For that, we need ...
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Limit the number of inactive widgets
I'm trying to restrict the number of widgets from the "wp_inactive_widgets" sidebar to maximum 10, because the widgets admin page is incredibly slow:
add_filter('pre_update_option_sidebars_widgets', ...
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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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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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Conditionally enqueue a widget's script/stylesheet in HEAD (only when present on page!)
I've been trying to load scripts and styles for a WordPress widget with the following conditions...
The scripts MUST load in the HEAD (else they break).
The scripts must ONLY load when the widget ...
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Custom Widget function in Plugin not working?
I took a code straight out of one of my themes I created, and it's a list of all 50 states in an unordered list packed into a widget you can just drag and drop on the sidebar.
The problem is, when I ...
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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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How Can I Add the “Insert From URL” Tab to a Custom 3.5 Media Uploader?
I've inserted a WP 3.5 media uploader into a widget by running this JavaScript when a button is clicked on:
var frame = wp.media( {
title : 'Widget Uploader',
multiple : false,
...
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Individual Widgets per Page
In my (page-only, no posts) Wordpress site I have a number of static blobs in need to put in a sidebar. We could call/tream thoses 'blobs' as widgets. At least they'll have a fixed html content, like ...
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How Do I Add Custom CSS To Only Certain Widgets
I have a standard dynamic sidebar using register_sidebar and dynamic_sidebar and I need the last widget in the sidebar (which will not have a set number of widgets) to have a distinct class ...
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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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What is the quickest way to make a widget?
I have some PHP code that I would like to pull out of an existing page of a template, and put into a widget so I can move it around.
What is the quickest way to create a widget?
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Add filter to blogroll widget
I'm trying to add <i class="icon-ok"></i> before the content inside the <li> of the blogroll widget. I'm assuming that's done through the link_title filter, but I can't find a ...
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Simple rich text editor in Text widget?
I've seen a few plugins that add rich text editing to the default "Text" Widget. However, all of the ones I've tested are either too complicated (or try to do too much) or don't work properly with the ...
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What is the correct way to build a widget using OOP
I am working on a simple search form widget, with a built in autocomplete capability (You can download the current version here). The plugin is working, but I am currently rewriting all the code using ...
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Complex widget form UI - examples and best practices
I'm contemplating a widget with quite a number of options, which will make for a lengthy widget form. To improve the user experience with this form, I'd like to divide it into sections. I don't feel ...
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What is the difference between wp_register_sidebar_widget and register_widget?
What's the difference between them and when should we use each one ?
I'm using wp_register_sidebar_widget right now and it's working fine but I've seen a lot of tutorials online on how to create a ...
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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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Add the sidebar/widget editor to the post edit screen?
There are (among others) two common ways of customizing the sidebar on an individual post:
Create a new sidebar for the post, using code or plugins like Custom sidebars, WP Custom Sidebar, Per Page ...
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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 display widget by id
I fetched widget id this way:
$the_sidebars = wp_get_sidebars_widgets();
print_r( $the_sidebars['sidebar-1'] );
It shows:
Array ( [0] => recent-posts-2 [1] => recent-comments-2
[2] ...
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How can I get $id variable in widget's form function?
How can I get $id variable in widget's form function?
According to widget's structure I see that widget function have $args as a parameter, which will be extracted in function's body. In my case i ...
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Different widgets on different page templates?
If I have a couple of different Page templates, how would I show a different collection of sidebar widgets for each of these templates? I'm using the Starkers theme as a starting point.
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Does the number of widgets installed affect website performance?
Does a website slow down or under perform in any way with a large number of widgets installed?
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Is there any way to dynamically alter widget titles?
I have a case where that are a lot of widgets in several custom sidebars. I am wondering if there is a simple way to alter the titles of each widget dynamically. Typically a widget has a title field ...
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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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How to hide or remove unwanted widgets on Multisite installation?
I am using Multi-site installation. I don't want all the widgets appear under widgets.php on dashboard .So I tried to find a way to remove or hide unnecessary widgets . SO that the new sub-sites ...
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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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How to load Widget javascript + css files only if used?
I'd like to keep the javascript and css styles used by my widget inside their own files (and not add them to the theme).
But i can't seem to get wordpress to add them when the widget is actually used ...
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A plugin to show post tags in a widget
I'm looking to show the tags of a post within a widget. I know this is hard because it's outside of the loop, but has it been done, is there one available?
Thanks for any assistance.
Hudson
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Get sidebar parameters (before_widget, before_title, etc.) from within a widget
Is it possible to dynamically get sidebar parameters from within a widget? That is, I am trying to access the before_widget/after_widget/before_title/after_title/name parameters of the containing ...
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Has anyone managed to integrate the wp_editor inside a widget?
Adding this in the widget form method:
wp_editor($text, $this->get_field_id('text'));
seems to work. But after you press the "Save" button the widget goes funky...
Adding ...
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Video Embed in Sidebar Widget with Links to Others in Category
I am trying to re-create the sidebar widget found here: http://www.clinicalforensicpsychology.org/
The links below the shown video are linked to the post category "videos". I have tried most every ...
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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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Using widget options 'outside' the widget
I want to save some parameters in the widget options which are then passed into another page.
The widget is a form which calls a webservice.
The options I want to pass are the authentication for the ...
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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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Delete Custom Dashboard Widgets
Here is the code on how to delete all dashboard widgets - the default, and plugin widgets but I want to change the code to only delete custom dashboard widgets not the default ones.
// Create the ...
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Moving WordPress.com theme and widget settings to self-hosted site?
Possible Duplicate:
Migrating from WordPress.com to self-hosted site and autoforward visitors?
How can I move theme and plugin (widget) settings from a WordPress.com site to a self-hosted ...
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Why will using __construct instead of widget_class_name when creating widget trigger out of memory error
I find that if I use
class widget_name extends WP_Widget {
function __construct() { ... }
}
instead of
class widget_name extends WP_Widget {
function widget_name() { ... }
}
I get an ...
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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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Should I use set_transient or update_option?
I want to store some Twitter API data in WordPress. After every hour, I want to fetch new data from Twitter, and update only if the data is successfully retrieved from API (sometimes the API gives ...
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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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How to add a filter to all widget output
Is there one last filter that is ran over the widgets before they are sent out to the browser? I would like to add a filter that adds rel="nofollow" to all links in all widgets.
For instance, I can ...
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Copy widget settings from one blog to another
I am trying to hook 'wpmu_new_blog' in a plugin so I can copy the widget settings from one blog to the new blog that is being created.
Does anyone know if there are WordPress functions to accomplish ...
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Disable Specific Widgets on Selected Pages of a WordPress Website?
I would like to give a CMS look to some of my pages. I want to customize them by removing the default widgets and adding other widgets as my wish (I will use plugins like My Custom Widget to add ...
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What is the best way to include a widget in a Page?
I am setting up a new WordPress blog and would like to include a widget in the content of a Page. I found some forums describing PHP hacks which appeared to apply to older versions. With WordPress ...
