Hot answers tagged widgets
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If the widget is part of the wordpress core, you can see its source in wp-includes/default-widgets.php.
If it came with a theme or plugin, you can find the code there. Sometimes widgets will be in an obviously-named widgets.php, but other times you'll have to hunt for them. At some point, each widget has to be registered by calling register_widget. You can ...
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You are getting this error because your class ass no method named widget which is a must to properly use the widgets api. Meaning that each class/widget that extends the WP_Widget class must have a method named widget which is responsible for the actual widget display. So consider this structure as a widget class skeleton:
class custom_Widget extends ...
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You can do this by modifying your theme's CSS, which you can get to at Appearance > Editor in the Dashboard.
You will need to style the widget list element by dropping this in your theme's style.css
.widget.latest-tweets .widget-wrap ul {
list-style: none;
list-style-image: url(http://your-image-url-here);
}
Edit: Updated code to relevant to ...
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You say that you are...
... wanting to add a random reason (quote) as to why they should join
which will change after every reload of the page
And you seem to trying to do this by placing Javascript in a text widget. I assume that is what you mean by the '"text" in the site'.
Based on that description, you don't need Javascript. You need a new ...
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Register/enqueue an admin stylesheet
function my_admin_theme_style() {
wp_enqueue_style('my-admin-theme', get_template_directory_uri().'/admin-style.css');
}
add_action('admin_enqueue_scripts', 'my_admin_theme_style');
Then add rules of the form
#widget-list div[id*="_archives-"], div[id*="_archives-"] {
background:red;
}
Consider that proof of ...
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You have to make sure that all of your parameters are passed all the way through to the WP_Widget class. Your code is very truncated but I am pretty sure that is what you are doing wrong.
The widget code below works-- it doesn't do much of anything, but it works. See if you can use it as a template to sort out your own code.
class Foo extends WP_Widget ...
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I question the wisdom of extending a class from another plugin. You have no idea what will happen next time that other plugin gets updated.
However, generally speaking you can control when in a hook "queue" a function runs by passing a third parameter-- a priority. So pass a priority high enough and your function should run after the other plugin's ...
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